Bessie Coleman

Bessie Coleman was the first African American women to do what?

• Get an international pilot's license
• Be in an airplane
• Get an ID card
• Cut hair in a barber shop

Bessie Coleman grew up in a time of discrimination. What does discrimination mean?

• Treating one group of people in an unfair way
• To be very poor
• Very little education
• Equality for all people

Bessie's whole family did what kind of work?

• sharecroppers
• raised cattle
• picked corn
• house maids

Why did Bessie's father leave the family?

• He wanted a better job.
• He wanted to move where they would be treated better. 
• He wanted to go into farming. 
• All of the above.

Bessie loved school, and earned money to go to college.  Unfortunately, she had to stop going because 

• She moved to France to go to pilot school. 
• She ran out of money to pay for college.
• She moved to Chicago to become a manicurist. 
• She got married and had children. 

Which fact gives us  a clue that Bessie would be successful?

• Her family moved to Waxahachie.
• Her parents were sharecroppers.
• She loved reading and was a math whiz.
• She walked miles to school each day. 

What city did Bessie move to after college with her brothers?

• Chicago
• Philadelphia
• Dallas
• Waxahachie

What does enlist mean?

• to do an airplane stunt
• to travel to another country
• to sign up for
• to start a special school

What encouraged Bessie to go to France and become a pilot?

• Her brother's stories of pilots.
• The discrimination in the area.
• Seeing barnstormers perform. 
• Joining the army.

Bessie wanted to become a pilot, but she couldn't while in the United States. Why?

• She didn't have enough money
• There weren't any pilot schools
• She was a black woman
• Her family didn't want her to be a pilot