WNYC is a media partner for “A Dream to Fly: Inspired by the Life and Times of Bessie Coleman”. A one day performance about the world’s first female black pilot. At the Schomberg Center. Friday, March 14.

Bessie Coleman was born on a Texas plantation in 1892, inspired to fly in Chicago in 1919 and before the age of 30, earned her license to fly internationally in France in 1921.

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