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On September 3, , in a borrowed Curtiss JN-4D Jenny at Curtiss Field on Long Island, Bessie Coleman made the first public flight by a Black woman in the United States.

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In September of , upon returning to the United States with the ultimate goal of establishing a flying school for African Americans, Bessie made her first appearance at an American airshow honoring veterans of the all-black th Infantry Regiment of the First World War.


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Bessie Coleman, American aviator and a star of early aviation exhibitions and air shows.
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In , aviator Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman to stage a public flight in America.