The first international pilot license title was given to an African American female named Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman. Her challenge on how to get a pilot’s license started when she was denied access for a commercial pilot's license in America initially.  She decided to not only leave the country, but had to learn French to get educated in the field of flying a plane. The extremely attractive feminine African American woman moved to France and the move turned her into a star pilot with a craft for putting on airshows.

The woman that would become the first international air pilot, Elizabeth “Bessie Coleman, was born in Atlanta, Texas on January 28, 1892 to a 1/2 Cherokee father who was a sharecropper with her mother.  Bessie was the tenth of thirteen children,  She died on April 30 in the year she turned 34 years old. The American civil aviator as a child walk four miles each day to her all-black, one-room school from the time she was six years old for her childhood education. Although lacking school supplies and other school materials such as writing utensils, she excelled as a student.  She became an expert at mathematics.  Despite the fact that Coleman’s routine of school, chores, and church was interrupted by the cotton harvest, she managed to complete eight years of school.

Racial barriers In 1901 had her father George fed up, so he left his family hoping to make a better life by returning to Oklahoma called at the time, Indian Territory. Life was very difficult for Bessie Smith, her mother and siblings because of her fathers need to find work.. At the age of twelve, Ms. Coleman was accepted into the Missionary Baptist Church. When she turned eighteen, Coleman took all of her savings and enrolled in the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University, which is today called Langston University.

For one college term Bessie found stay on campus before she ran out of money and was forced to return home. Believing she would have no future in her home state, she went to live with two brothers in Chicago looking for work.

She was twenty-three years of age when she found a job as a manicurist at the White Sox Barber Shop in Chicago, Illinois. It was during this time that her interest became peaked about flying and becoming a pilot while hearing many tales about the world from pilots coming home from World War I. You can read the balance of this fascinating story about Bessie Smith at the link below that includes how an African American Lawyer who believed in her and her dream of flying helped fund a trip to an International school for flying that would lend Bessie Smith to make historical imprints as a pilot, teacher and present defying aerial shows.

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