num_pages: 192
description: Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta Texas she became known as Queen Bess a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race sex and society in pursuit of a dream.
language: English
title: Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator
publisher: Smithsonian Books