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Toggle navigation. She fought hard and worked harder. This is a timeline of her life. Bessie Coleman is born Bessie was born in Atlanta, Texas to a poor black family. She grew up in a very racist community. Bessie leaves school to help her mother Bessie worked hard and saved her money to pay for industrial college, but her mother needed her help at home.

Bessie gave up her schooling to help at home. Bessie moves to Chicago for a better life Bessie moved to Chicago, hoping for less racism and a better life with her brother. She became a manicurist, where she met many rich black people. Her brother tells tales of flying women Bessie's brothers told her stories of French women who could fly airplanes, still a new invention.

Bessie dreamed of flying, but no school would take her because she was black and a woman. A friend helps her go to France Bessie had met Robert Abbot during her work as a manicurist. He was a wealthy black man, and he helped her go to France to attend aviation school there. Bessie returns to America a graduate Bessie returned to New York with her pilot's license.

She was celebrated as a pioneer.