Welcome to the History Tricks, where Andy resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary!

Once upon a time there was a little girl who walked 8 miles to go to school,

10 miles to earn a living, and 18 miles to learn to achieve her dreams.

And then she flew, D, N.

Let's talk about Bessie Coleman, but first let's drop her into history.

In 1921, Albert Einstein was lecturing in New York on his new theory of relativity.

Shuffle along the first all-black musical opened in New York.

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Soviet German Workers' Party.

Amelia Earhart buys her first plane, the Canary, and has only been flying for eight months.

Josephine Baker was a chorus girl in Philadelphia.

And on June 15th, 1921, Aviatrix Bessie Coleman becomes the first African-American woman to earn her pilot's license.

Bessie Coleman was born on January 26th, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas.

She was the 10th of 13 children of George and Susan Coleman,

or the 6th of the 9 surviving children, which tells all the tale you probably need to know.

George was three-quarters American Indian, and the rest was African-American.

Papal was probably born a freed-in, as a matter of fact, but Momaw was probably born a slave,

but definitely at least the child of slaves she was from Georgia.

So, there's the family makeup.

They move when Bessie was two to the prospering cotton town of, let's take a breath.

That's a Hattie, Texas.

The oldest three siblings, one was 17 years older.

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