Even as a little girl working in a Waxahachie, Texas, cotton field, Bessie Coleman wants to fly. When her brothers return from World War I and tell Bessie stories of the French women pilots, she sees a way to make her dream come true. After seven months studying in France, she returns to the United States an aviator and an inspiration. She is the first African American, and the first black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license. The book also includes an afterword that tells the rest of the life story of Bessie Coleman.
