Illustrated by Janice Lee Porter. The crowd gasped as Bessie Coleman’s plane buzzed right over their heads. Bessie could do just about any trick in an aeroplane, no matter how daring. But there was a time when she couldn’t even take off or land. In 1920, she couldn’t find an American pilot who would teach a black woman to fly. Bessie didn’t take no for an answer. She went to France and became the first black woman to earn a pilot’s license. This is the inspiring story of one woman’s fight for the freedom to soar through the skies. Ages 7-9.