Born in Texas(得克萨斯州)in 1893,Bessie Coleman drew she wanted to do something exciting with her life. Then Coleman saw her first airplane, and she knew she wanted to fly. But no school would teach her because she was a woman and a black woman. So Coleman went to Europe. At the age of twenty-eight, she became the world's first black woman to hold a pilot's license(拥有飞行驾照). Then she went home to fly in air shows(飞行表演). Soon she was called "Brave (勇敢的)Bessie. "Bessie Coleman had wanted to open a flying school for black women. Sadly, she never saw her dream come true. She was killed in a plane crash. But Coleman is still remembered today. A group of black flies call themselves the "Bessie Coleman Aviators.