This week in Year 4, we have learnt about Bessie Coleman.
Bessie Coleman was born in 1896, and raised in Texas by an African American mother and a father of both African and Native American heritage. After hearing her brothers’ war time tales of women in France being allowed to fly airplanes, her interest in becoming a pilot was piqued. Coleman became the first African American person and first Native American woman to receive her international flying license from the Fédération Aéronotique Internationale. Well known and loved for her stunt flying and figure 8 formations in the air, she remained firm in her principles and wouldn’t perform flights or speak at segregated venues or places that discriminated against African Americans. Bessie Coleman was awarded a stamp in her name.
After all of our research, we then mind-mapped adjectives to describe Bessie Coleman and recreated the words using shadow art. From there, we then made our own stamp to celebrate Bessie Coleman.
