EP. 69 Texans You Should Know: Bessie Coleman, Pilot & Pioneer

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

History, Education, Texan, Culture, Places & Travel, Texans, San, Cowboy, Texas, Jacinto, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Born into poverty and raised in north central Texas, Bessie Coleman wanted to fly. But in the early 20th century, nobody in the United States would teach a black woman to fly an airplane. So Bessie Coleman learned a new language, traveled a world away, and realized her dream. A pioneer pilot, Coleman came home and became famous. She used her talent and her perseverance to show everyone what was possible. Learn more about a true pioneer aviator in this episode of Wise About Texas.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the award winning Texas History Podcast. My name is Ken Wise. I'm your host and I really
0:16.8	appreciate you tuning in for Little Texas History. This episode is being released in early June of 2019 and it is already about to hit 100 degrees.
0:28.0	So it looks like Texas is in for yet another hot summer.
0:31.8	I hope all the kids had a great year in school they're getting out and
0:35.9	everyone's going to be hitting the road for your summer vacation so I'm going to do
0:40.6	something a little different this summer. I'm going to try to do a series of
0:43.1	shorter, quicker episodes a little more frequently so you can have a little Texas
0:48.3	history to take with you on your road trips or wherever you're going. Things have been very busy here at Wies about Texas World Headquarters.
0:56.0	The Bonnie and Clyde series has proven to be extremely popular.
1:01.0	I'm glad everybody liked it. I'm doing a ton of public speaking, which I enjoy very much. I got to, I had a very interesting experience, got to spend some time with a Texas history class from Houston Baptist
1:14.3	University traveling around to some of the historic sites of the Texas
1:17.4	Revolution which was a fantastic experience they were great students and it makes a big difference when you're talking
1:24.8	about Fanon for example while standing on a battlement at Persidio Labahia and that's why
1:31.6	the getting their portion of these podcasts is one of my favorite things
1:35.3	because I always love to walk the ground where Texas history happened.
1:38.7	I hope that all your travels this summer, you'll take a little time to pull over and visit some of the great historical
1:45.3	sites in Texas.
1:47.3	I want to mention one more thing.
1:50.6	Everybody listens to this podcast has probably heard once or twice that I my day job is a justice on the 14th Court of Appeals based in Houston. We serve 10 counties and I just wanted to let everybody know that in 2020 I'll be on the ballot and
2:06.9	we're going to keep that separate that that activity is starting to kick off but we're going to keep it
2:12.1	separate from
2:13.4	Wies about Texas so if you ended up hearing this podcast or going to the
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