tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20505927686870893682024-03-05T01:58:04.107-08:00Bessie Coleman: Flying the BluesThe Bessie Coleman Flying the Blues Blog takes a look at the life of pioneering aviatrix Bessie Coleman. She was admired for her death defying skills as an airshow barnstormer. Because of her race, Bessie had to go to France to receive flight training where she earn an international pilots license. Coleman died in 1926 in a plane crash in Jacksonville, FL on April 30th. Coleman's dream of opening a school inspired her followers to form the schools that trained the Tuskegee Airmen.http://scholarresourcetutoring.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-store-specials.htmlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079645667245760115noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050592768687089368.post-17720622650235428492013-11-02T20:35:00.000-07:002013-11-02T20:40:14.214-07:00Bessie Coleman Street in South AfricaDid you know that there is also a <b>Bessie Coleman Street</b> in the Tigane province of South Africa. Bessie Coleman street runs into Thabo Mbeki and Walter Sisulu streets. Mbeki is a ANC member and former president of South Africa. Sisulu was jailed 25 years with Mandela. It is also one street over from Malcolm X and Winnie Mandela streets. Wow, she is in good company. Tigane is situated in Klerksdorp, North West, South Africa. It is west of Johannesburg and Soweto.<br />
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<b>Memorial to celebrity aviator Bessie Coleman could find home at Jacksonville's airport</b><br />
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Posted: October 27, 2013 <i>Florida Times Union</i><br />
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<i><b>By Matt Soergel</b></i><br />
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The famous and daring Bessie Coleman plunged to her death in Jacksonville in 1926, falling 2,000 feet from an airplane over the Westside. The death of the woman known as “Queen Bess” was headline news all across the country. Then America moved on, to other dramas, other tragedies, other heroes.<br />
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More than 87 years later, though, her life could soon be honored again at a most appropriate place — in the airport of the city where she died.<br />
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Jacksonville native Opio Sokoni has been pushing for a memorial somewhere in the city to Coleman, who was the first black woman to get a pilot’s license. He’s suggested a statue of her, or a street, park or school named after her.<br />
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He recently found a supporter in Steve Grossman, CEO of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, who said he favors doing something at Jacksonville International Airport to recognize Coleman.<br />
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Grossman said he’s not sure what that would be yet, though he plans to get the project moving in the next few weeks. “I would like to figure out: What should we do, and where should we do it?” he said.<br />
He’s familiar with Coleman’s story; when he was head of the airport in Oakland, Calif., he supported efforts there to name a street after her. “It was the right thing to do,” he said.<br />
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Coleman was a nationwide celebrity, famed for her perseverance, boldness and beauty. She died Aug. 30, 1926, the day before a big air show in Jacksonville, after she and pilot William Wills took off to scout where she would make a parachute jump the next day.<br />
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During the flight, the plane went into a sudden dive — reports said a wrench slid and jammed the controls — and Coleman, who had been peering over the side, was thrown to her death. Wills was killed as the plane exploded on impact.<br />
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In 2012, a bronze plaque with Coleman’s likeness was placed at the front doors of Paxon School for Advanced Studies. In the 1920s, that was the site of the airfield where the ill-fated flight began. But Sokoni thinks more should be done for her. And what better place, he said, than an airport?<br />
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Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2013-10-27/story/memorial-celebrity-aviator-bessie-coleman-could-find-home-jacksonvilles#ixzz2j4n2IZUUhttp://scholarresourcetutoring.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-store-specials.htmlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079645667245760115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050592768687089368.post-43749560756014547752013-10-09T07:12:00.000-07:002013-10-09T07:21:00.466-07:00Bessie Coleman Street NamedPioneer Aviatrix Bessie Coleman was from the other Atlanta - a small town in Texas. Just like Chicago and Frankfurt Germany, a street at the airport is named in Brave Bessie's honor...<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Atlanta Honors Bessie Coleman</span></b></div>
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The city of Atlanta honored one of its own Friday when it unveiled a street sign renaming the road leading to the city airport to Bessie Coleman Drive. The road was originally named Airport Drive.</div>
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Coleman was American's first female African-American pilot. She was born in Atlanta on Jan. 26, 1892, the sixth surviving child of Susan and George Coleman.</div>
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She made headlines in 1921when she became the first African-American woman to earn an international pilot's license. On Sept. 3, 1922 she made history as she became the first black woman to fly over American soil.</div>
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Mayor Kay Philips unveiled the sign and guests were treated to refreshments afterward in the terminal at the Atlanta Municipal Airport.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The major newspapers in the 1920s had a fascination with aviation. The first black female to fly an airplane, however, was made a household name among African Americans by the black press. They both covered her. Bessie Coleman was called “a vivacious little cutie” in one major newspaper and a “nervy lady” by The Chicago Defender, a black weekly. Bessie’s antagonist is a storm of circumstances that includes her being female, black and economically poor in the exciting times of the roaring twenties. Blues songs and swing-Jazz dances created excitement everywhere. Bessie’s best friend and confidant, Ethel, becomes one of the most celebrated Blues, Gospel and Jazz singers of the day.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> We see a thoughtful and intelligent child grow up and leave the harsh realities of a small southern town. Bessie Coleman moves to the big city of Chicago where those that meet her observe signs of a woman destined for greatness. When Bessie decides that she wants to fly an airplane, she could not get flight lessons anywhere in the United States. No flight school would take a black student during that time. But, schools in France would. With the help of wealthy donors, Bessie Coleman takes up studying French and leaves the country to receive flight lessons. A fatal air accident happens while she is in flight school. She decides to stay and complete her training – earning her an international pilot’s license. Bessie Coleman becomes the first black person to receive a pilot’s license in the United States. The press eats it up. The fact that she is regal and stunningly beautiful is not lost on her throngs of admirers.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reporters flock behind the incredibly dressed Bessie at airshows. She repeatedly tells them her dream of building a flight school so that [everyone] could learn how to fly. She also angers some by refusing to perform at events that did not permit African Americans. Coleman gets her way because she is a star whose skills as a barnstormer are unmatched. She out dazzles even the best stunt pilots of her day. She walks on the wings of planes and makes her airplane do tricks that only a few would dare. Many barnstormers died at airshows during the early times in aviation. Queen Bess, as she is sometimes called, consistently compels thousands to come see her defy death.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Triumph turns to tragedy, however. One day before an airshow she was to headline, Brave Bessie falls 2000 feet from her airplane. She dies instantly. Her not so trusted assistant also dies a bizarre death immediately thereafter when the plane crashes to the ground. What about her dreams? The Red Tails, aka The Tuskegee Airmen, were trained at Bessie Coleman inspired flight schools that sprung up immediately after her death. This screenplay is based on a graduate study and short documentary film of the same name.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> First,
thank you to Mayor Alvin Brown who signed this resolution and to all of the
members of this body. A special thank you to Councilman president Gulliford and
a particular thank you to Councilman Jones. I would be remiss if I did not mention
Councilman Gaffney who is my council member. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Bessie
Coleman represents an incredible time in U.S. history. Women were gaining their
right to vote. World War I was over and the economy was roaring. Blues, Jazz,
and swing dances like the Lindy Hop, the Black Bottom and the Charleston were
shared by the entire country. The Harlem Renaissance was at full steam along
with the Marcus Garvey movement. Jacksonville, Florida was the winter capital
of a booming film industry during that time. Bessie Coleman’s presence here in
1926 added to the incredible excitement that was going on in this city. She was
a flying sensation that was written about and adored all across the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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death here in Jacksonville sent ripples throughout the new aviation world and
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impact of Bessie's death, however, caused admirers to fulfill her dreams of
opening flight schools in the United States. One of those Bessie Coleman flight
schools trained the World War II hero pilots called the Tuskegee Airmen. So
many have forgotten about Brave Bessie. She died here. We do well in honoring
her. Let’s agree to do more. The way Chicago and Texas has. The way Frankfurt
Germany has in remembering Queen Bess. Something to show the beauty and bravery
she exuded as an aviation pioneer. Something to show that we remember her. What
a wonderful story for this city. What a wonderful story this is for Jacksonville,
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Aviator Pioneer Bessie Coleman admired Sojourner Truth. The name Sojourner was given to a robotic miniature Mars rover that explored the planet for three months. The name was selected in an essay contest won by a 12-year-old from Connecticut. The height of aviation in our time is the ability to go into space. Bessie Coleman was a pioneer in the field of aviation and has been enshrined into the Aviation Hall of Fame. She died when she was flung from an airplane a day before a major airshow in Jacksonville, Florida. The city's council honored her on Aug. 27, 2013 with a resolution.<br />
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Sojourner, means "traveler", who escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.<br />
After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on gender inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves. (-wikipedia)http://scholarresourcetutoring.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-store-specials.htmlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079645667245760115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050592768687089368.post-86202566261477296022013-08-20T08:11:00.000-07:002013-08-20T08:11:06.451-07:00Bessie Quote<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A resolution honoring aviatrix pioneer Bessie Coleman will
be presented by the Jacksonville City Council. We are asking that you come out
and support this historical recognition. Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman was the
first Black female aviatrix. She received an international pilot’s license from
France and learned to stunt fly in Germany. Bessie was flung from her airplane
at 2,000 feet up on April 30, 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida - one day before an
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The information for this occasion is as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>DATE: </b>Tuesday August 27, 2013<b> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>TIME: </b>5pm<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>PLACE: </b>Jacksonville City Council Chambers at 117
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To have a seat reserved, please contact Opio Sokoni at
politainment1@gmail.com. Call or text him at 904-422-6078. To keep up with the
latest on our efforts to properly honor Bessie Coleman (e.g., Statue at the
Jacksonville, International Airport), go to the blog at <a href="http://bessiecolemanflyingtheblues.blogspot.com/">http://bessiecolemanflyingtheblues.blogspot.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13.333333015441895px;">The resolution to honor Bessie Coleman has been approved by the Jacksonville, Florida city council and signed by the mayor. Please keep August 27th (Tuesday) 5:30 pm open on your calendar if you plan to attend this historical occasion at the council meeting - </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13.333333015441895px;">located: Jacksonville City Hall 117 West Duval St., Suite 425. Jacksonville, FL 32202 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 13.333333015441895px;">adjacent to Hemming Plaza downtown. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13.333333015441895px;">Also, send me a message if you would like a reserve seat to politainment1@gmail.com. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A RESOLUTION HONORING AND COMMEMORATING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>WHEREAS, </b>Bessie Coleman was born January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas
and raised in Waxahachie, Texas where she was the tenth of 13 children and attended
a one-room segregated schoolhouse and became the family’s bookkeeper at a very
young age for her mother’s cooking and housekeeping business; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bessie Coleman at 18 years old attended college at the Colored Agricultural and
Normal University in Langston, Oklahoma for several months before she ran out
of money and headed back home to Waxahachie in grand style with members of the
marching band in tow; and she moved to Chicago several years later during the
mass migration from the south during World War I where she worked and became
known as the fastest manicurist in the city while dreaming of learning to fly
and becoming a pilot in the new world of aeronautics; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in 1920 Bessie Coleman, having learned French and using money that she had
saved, and receiving an investment from an African-American banker, went to
France where gender and racial prejudice was much less pronounced, and
completed an aviation course, becoming the first American to receive a pilot’s
license from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale and thereby became the
first licensed black pilot in the United States upon her return to America; and
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</b>Bessie Coleman performed in air shows around the country where she became
known as “Queen Bess” and “Brave Bessie” as a result of her breath-taking air
maneuvers and highly entertaining parachute jumps, and the Norman Studios in
Jacksonville communicated with Bessie about using her flying skills to make
what will later become The Flying Ace, and Queen Bess gave lectures inspiring
others to pursue their dreams all while saving up money to make her dream of
opening a flight school come true so that African Americans could learn how to
fly here in the United States; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>WHEREAS, </b>in 1926 on April 30<sup>th</sup> while on a barnstorming
tour in Florida, Brave Bessie fell from her plane in Jacksonville at the now
defunct Paxon Airfield where Bessie Coleman was killed, and thousands of
mourners filed pass her coffin here at the St. Philips Episcopal Church and
Bethel Baptist Institutional Church; now therefore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>Section 1. </b>The City of
Jacksonville hereby honors and commemorates a legacy of pioneering aviation,
self-confidence and heroism of famed African-American female aviatrix Bessie
Coleman, and urges all people to profit from her example of persistence and self-determination
to follow her dreams and achieve unprecedented success despite long odds and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a display case you will see after getting off </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the airplane and walking to get your<br />luggage. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other side (through the glass) is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where passengers walk to go to the gates</span>.</div>
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In 2013, one day before the 87th anniversary of the death of Bessie Coleman here in Jacksonville, Jacksonville.com (<i>The Florida Times Union)</i> posts an historical article about Bessie Coleman. This publication slighted her in 1926 arguably because she was a black woman.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Congrats to Bessie Coleman on a front page honor in Jacksonville's Florida Times Union newspaper. A paper that slighted her in 1926 when she died (April 30), finally corrected the record - on the 87th anniversary of her death in that city. www.Poli-Tainment.com</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Opio Sokoni sits under the plaque commemorating the first black woman pilot in the U.S. who died in a plane crash at Paxon Air Field which was located near where Paxon High School is now located. Bessie Coleman crashed and was killed in a flying accident on April 30, 1926.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was big news in Jacksonville, briefly, 87 years ago.</span><br />
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On April 30, 1926, the lead headline of the afternoon edition of the Jacksonville Journal was played big: “Jax Airplane Crash Kills Two.” The headline in the next morning’s Times-Union was smaller but flashier: “Death at controls of airplane as two are flung from the sky.”<br />
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The stories recounted how aviatrix Bessie Coleman — the first black woman to get a pilot’s license — fell 2,000 feet to her death from an out-of-control plane piloted by William Wills, who was killed as the plane exploded on impact.<br />
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Thousands of people attended a memorial service in Jacksonville for Coleman, a celebrity pilot known for her daring, her perseverance and her beauty. Then the city moved on. Now there’s scant evidence in the city where she plunged to her death that she was ever there.<br />
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Jacksonville native Opio Sokoni is pushing to change that. He thinks there should be something named for her in Jacksonville — afterall, a main road at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago is named Bessie Coleman Drive.<br />
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“Here, I found out, no streets, no schools, no libraries, no parks. No nothing,” Sokoni said.<br />
He found some support when he asked the City Council last week to do something to memorialize Coleman.<br />
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Councilman Warren Jones, whose district takes in the area where she died, said he’ll introduce a resolution honoring her. In an interview after the council meeting, he said he will also look into renaming a street or a park after Coleman, though that isn’t always an easy thing.<br />
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“He brought up a good point,” Jones said of Sokoni. “I’m just trying to determine how best to do it.”<br />
Councilman Bill Gulliford said he’d support doing something more than a resolution.<br />
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“I think that for a woman, and especially as an African-American woman, in that time, to accomplish what she did was pretty doggone impressive,” he said.<br />
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There is one reminder of Coleman in Jacksonville already.<br />
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In January 2012, a bronze plaque of “Queen Bess,” as she was known, was placed next to the front doors of Paxon School for Advanced Studies, which in the 1920s was the site of the airfield where Coleman’s fatal flight began. It was unveiled by members of the Bessie Coleman Aerospace Legacy Inc., founded by a group of African-American female pilots.<br />
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That group sponsors an essay contest for Paxon students, and students see the plaque every day, said the school’s principal, Royce Turner. “She is kept alive in that way,” he said.<br />
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The school has another aeronautical connection: The road in front of it has already been renamed for Paxon grad Norman E. Thagard, a one-time astronaut. “And we’re the Eagles, and that gives us another connection to flying,” Turner said.<br />
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Marisa Carbone of Atlantic Beach researched Coleman’s life for a screenplay that was featured at a script contest at the Jacksonville Film Festival in 2004.<br />
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“You know, there should be a statue here, there really should,” Carbone said. “She was a pioneer here. She was before Amelia Earhart.”<br />
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Coleman, the daughter of Texas sharecroppers, was intrepid: When schools in America wouldn’t teach her to fly, she went to language school to learn French, then traveled to France to get her pilot’s license in 1921.<br />
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She was pretty and engaging and brave, which made her a favorite of the Chicago Defender newspaper, a black publication that frequently put her on the front page. Railroad porters put copies of the paper on trains, which then took it around the country, where word of the barnstorming pilot spread, Carbone said.<br />
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Coleman put on flying displays around the country, and came to Jacksonville in 1926 to prepare for a big show on May 1. The day before, she and Willis took off to scout out where she would make a parachute jump the next day.<br />
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In flight over the Westside, the plane, a Curtiss JN-4, went into a sudden dive and Coleman, who was peering over the side, fell to the ground. Wills died moments later in the crash landing. News reports at the time said a wrench had slid and jammed into the “control gears” of the plane.<br />
“They had a huge service for her at Bethel [Baptist Institutional Church],” Carbone said, “and then they put her body on a train, and all across the country the train stopped and there were services along the way, and when it got to Chicago there was an even bigger service.”<br />
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Books have been written about Coleman, and she was honored with a postal service stamp. Mae Jemison, the first black women to fly in space, called Coleman an inspiration. On the anniversary of her death, pilots in Chicago do a flyover past her grave.<br />
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A resolution in Jacksonville would be nice, Sokoni said, but it’s not enough.<br />
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He’s 43, a Navy vet and graduate of Howard University law school. His family goes back generations in Cosmo, a little community in Fort Caroline. After law school he went west and ran a small radio station in Portland, Ore., and had a few stints on TV facing off against Fox News hosts such as Michelle Malkin, Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham. Back in Jacksonville, he now heads a nonprofit called Poli-tainment Inc., which mixes entertainment and social issues.<br />
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That’s where he learned of Coleman’s story, which he made into a short film, “Bessie Coleman: Flying the Blues,” that’s now on YouTube. “Bessie Coleman was one of a kind,” he said. “People need to know about her.”<br />
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And the city where she died, he figures, needs to do something more to keep her story alive.<br />
“I don’t want this to be just a black thing,” Sokoni said. “The entire city needs to understand that this woman belongs to all of us.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Bessie Coleman Fying the Blues</span><br />
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http://scholarresourcetutoring.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-store-specials.htmlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079645667245760115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050592768687089368.post-20387622052592883622013-04-28T15:57:00.001-07:002013-04-28T19:15:21.948-07:00Opio Sokoni's St. Philips Episcopal Church Speech about Aviatrix Bessie Coleman<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">SPEECH TEXT<br />April 28, 2013</span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He knows my soul so weak and blind, <br />
So full of fears of mortal mind,<br />
And He will lead, and I shall find<br />
The way to Him, I know.<br />
He guides my steps, and He knows best,<br />
He will not harm where He is blessed.<br />
And so goodnight, I'll take my rest,<br />
Where sweet wild roses grow.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Thank You: Father Hugh Chapman, Rector<br />
The St. Philips
Church Family<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> And a special thanks to
your administrator<br /> Mrs. Barbara Lee who gave me a church<br /> tour during the week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The words I opened with are
lyrics to “I’ve Done My Work” - the favorite song of Pioneering Aviatrix Bessie
Coleman who died here in Jacksonville in 1926. She had two funerals here in the
city. One was at Bethel Baptist Church and the other funeral was here. That
song would have been sung here that day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A movement is now under way to properly honor her memory here in Jacksonville.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I would like to read to you the letter I read before the City Council last week
at their meeting. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">[<a href="http://bessiecolemanflyingtheblues.blogspot.com/2013/04/honor-aviatrix-bessie-coleman-speech-by.html" target="_blank"><b>Opio Sokoni’S SPEECH TO THE JACKSONVILLE, FL. CITY COUNCIL</b></a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I
would like to personally thank St. Philips Episcopal Church for being among the
first to honor Bessie Coleman. And, for still being here in the same place for
so many years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bessie’s
story has some parallels to the disciple Philip in the Bible. I’m the grandson
of two pastors and I seem to remember that Apostle Philip was with Jesus when
he fed the multitudes with the five loaves of bread and fish. That feast is held
around May 1. Bessie came her to headline the airshow here on the very month
and day in 1926. Bessie’s funeral was held here almost to the exact day. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bessie died
doing what she loved in the field of aeronautics. Her dream was to open up a
school so that Blacks did not have to go to France to learn how to fly. When
she died, people were so inspired that flight schools were opened in her honor.
One such school created the Tuskegee Airmen who were heroes of WWII. I think about the Apostle Philip being hung
upside down and preaching from the cross. Bartholamew was released as a result
of St. Philips preaching. He, himself, refused to be taken off the cross and
died for his convictions. Your church and you are special. You are here for a
reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> I want to end by citing the words of
another song that the research said was sung at her funerals. The song is
entitle, “Jesus Savior Pilot Me.” The last verse of the song goes…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When at last I near the shore,<br />
And the fearful breakers roar<br />
’Twixt me and the peaceful rest,<br />
Then, while leaning on Thy breast,<br />
May I hear Thee say to me,<br />
“Fear not, I will pilot thee.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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having me. This is such an honor.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how St. Philips Episcopal Church would<br />
have looked during Bessie Coleman's Funeral</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmC-G7n8Prsr9jZedo0DQhoFByECqdCJ_5f1sDf8gBE7roOQlBu9gs2qdAoQXt755bChx9wbdJ349CqZGzWKi4sUlyIdNkpoBz9fqNZZMoZ9rbru24BWJnRFv9wNN4HaKyWjs0y1ZdAE/s1600/St+philips+leadership.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmC-G7n8Prsr9jZedo0DQhoFByECqdCJ_5f1sDf8gBE7roOQlBu9gs2qdAoQXt755bChx9wbdJ349CqZGzWKi4sUlyIdNkpoBz9fqNZZMoZ9rbru24BWJnRFv9wNN4HaKyWjs0y1ZdAE/s1600/St+philips+leadership.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Order of Leadership at<br />
St. Philips Episcopal Church<br />
Note: <b><span style="font-size: small;">Reverend Parchment</span></b> is<br />
the Rector in 1926, the year<br />
Bessie Coleman's funeral<br />
was held at the church.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reverend Satterwhite<br />
would have been at<br />
Bessie Coleman's Funeral.<br />
He was the Rector before and<br />
after Reverend Parchment who<br />
was the Rector when the funeral<br />
was held for Bessie Coleman at<br />
St. Philips Episcopal Church.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Current Picture of St. Philips Episcopal Church</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Father Hugh Chapman is the current Rector of<br />
St. Philips Episcopal Church</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Reverend Hugh Chapman and Opio Sokoni</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opio Sokoni is an activist, researcher of <br />
Pioneering Aviatrix Bessie Coleman<br />
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<i>Below is the text of the speech given at the Jacksonville, Florida City Council's April 23, 2013 meeting. Opio Sokoni requested that the City commit to officially honoring Bessie Coleman who died in Jacksonville, Florida April 30, 1926. </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I come before you to respectfully request that we as
a city properly honor aviatrix pioneer Bessie Coleman. The city of
Jacksonville, Florida is the only town relevant to her storied life that has
not formally recognized her memory with a street, building or other major city honor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> Bessie Coleman earned an international pilot’s license from the most
prestigious flight school in France. She was the first African American female
to fly a plane. Bessie was immensely popular during the 1920s and was admired
by many pilots of the day. She was known for breath-taking air maneuvers and
highly entertaining parachute jumps. The Norman Studios here in Jacksonville
communicated with Bessie about a film based on her incredible flying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> On April 27th, 1926 Coleman came to Jacksonville to headline an airshow sponsored
by the Negro Welfare League. Her contact here was an impressive, young 21 year
old name John Thomas Betsch, a Howard University graduate. He is the father of
our very own Johnetta B. Cole. While here in Jacksonville, Bessie made speeches
at the Strand Theatre, Stanton High School, Davis Street Elementary and Darnell
Cookman.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> On April 30, 1926, while flying over the now defunct
Paxon Airfield, Brave Bessie fell 2000 feet from her airplane. She died
instantly. Bessie’s body was taken to the Lawton L. Pratt funeral home. Bessie
was to appear at the Elite Circle and Girls’ DeLuxe Club’s much anticipated
dance that evening, a memorial was held for her instead. A funeral was held for
Bessie here at the Bethel Baptist Institutional Church. Thousands of mourners
filed past her coffin in Jacksonville. Reverends Scott Bartley, T.H.B. Walker
and John E. Ford presided over the massive funeral. The choir sung Bessie’s
favorite gospel song; “I’ve Done My Work.” A second service was held for her in
the city at the St. Philips Episcopal Church on Union Street - presided over by
Reverend Parchment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> When Bessie Coleman died, The Florida Times Union
newspaper refused to mention her by name; simply calling her “that woman.” A
letter has been sent to their editor asking them to run a story to correct the
record.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Bessie would not live to see the Norman Studios make its most famous
film, The Flying Ace. The United States Postal Service, however, did recognize
Bessie’s pioneering achievements with a postage stamp. The city of her childhood in Texas and her
adopted city (Chicago) have both named major roads and schools in Bessie’s
honor. Jacksonville, on the other hand, has streets named after Amelia Earhart
and the Wright brothers. Bessie has a closer tie to Jacksonville than either of
these great aviation pioneers but has not been honored as they have. It is my
belief that this woman belongs to this city as much as she belongs to either of
the other cities mentioned. This was the place she made her last flight, before
she fell into history, doing what she loved while contributing to the new world
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I say let’s formally commit to doing something major
to honor this woman. It will be long overdue for the life and memory of
Elizabeth Bessie Coleman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Opio L. Sokoni, MSCJ, JD at the Jacksonville, FL</div>
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city hall on April 23, 2013 - after making a<a href="http://bessiecolemanflyingtheblues.blogspot.com/2013/04/honor-aviatrix-bessie-coleman-speech-by.html" target="_blank"> speech</a></div>
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to the City Council concerning formally honoring</div>
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female pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman.</div>
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<b>Opio Sokoni</b> is from Jacksonville, Florida where he did an independent graduate study on pioneering aviatrix Bessie Coleman at the University of North Florida. He is also a political science graduate from Norfolk State University and has a law degree from Howard University.</div>
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The first African American Female Pilot, on April 29, 1926 visited the local schools in Jacksonville, FL to encourage young individuals to explore aviation. While rehearsing for her well-renowned aerobatics show held at Paxon Airfield, which today is Paxon School for Advanced Studies, a few miles away from the airfield her plane crashed. Bessie Coleman's last day was in Jacksonville Florida, on April 30, 1926.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Bessie Coleman Flying the Blues" takes a look at the times of the roaring twenties in the United States through the life of pioneering aviatrix Bessie Coleman. She was admired by the women and men of her day in aviatrix because of her death defying skills as an airshow barnstormer. She was the first American woman to receive an international pilots license. Because of her race in the Jim Crow era, Bessie had to go to France to receive training. Her influence reached beyond race and gender. She inspired Amelia Earhart who came after Bessie. Coleman died in 1926 in a plane crash one day before an airshow she was to headline in Jacksonville, Florida. Coleman's dream of opening a school inspired her followers to form the schools that trained the Tuskegee Airmen. This book is the most thorough research done into the life and circumstances of this American female pioneer in the field of aeronautics. Bessie Coleman remains a celebrated figure during Black History Month and she is hugely popular among aeronautics enthusiasts. Finally, this ebook captures race and Bessie's connection to the hugely popular Blues and Jazz music genres. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Bessie Coleman was the first African American to earn a pilot's license. She taught herself French and moved to France in order to earn a license. Her international license came from France's well-known Caudron Brother's School of Aviation in just seven months. She specialized in aerial tricks, stunt flying and parachuting. This is how she made a living as a barnstormer around the United States and France. She remains a pioneer in the field of aviation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: small;"> This letter is a request that the </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Florida Times Union </i><span style="font-size: small;">newspaper do a
correction on an important historical figure. On April 30, 1926, female
aviatrix pioneer Bessie Coleman died at the (now defunct) Paxon Airfield here
in Jacksonville, Florida. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>When Bessie Coleman died, your publication refused to
mention her by name; simply calling her “that woman.</b>” </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, it did mention
the name of the man who piloted the plane. Your story also falsely reported
that he was teaching Bessie how to fly. The truth is, Mrs. Coleman held an
international pilot’s license she earned from the most prestigious flight
school in France. The young pilot was Bessie’s junior and had less flying skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Bessie Coleman was immensely popular
during the roaring 20s and was admired by the male and female pilots of her day.
One of her admirers was Amelia Earhart. Bessie was known for breath-taking air
maneuvers and highly entertaining parachute jumps. Bessie is also the first African American
female to fly an airplane. This woman’s story is important to all. The Unite
States Postal Service recognized Mrs. Coleman’s achievements with a stamp in
her honor. The Norman Studios (of Laurel
and Hardy fame) here in Jacksonville communicated with Bessie concerning an
idea about a film based on her flying skills. She would not live to see the
company make its most famous film, <i>The
Flying Ace</i>. This film was completed and screened at the end of the same
year Bessie Coleman died. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bessie
was invited to Jacksonville by the Negro Welfare League. Thousands of people in
Jacksonville were going to enjoy their May 1<sup>st</sup> sponsored airshow.
However, a day before the event, Bessie was leaning over her airplane checking
out the field below while her assistant piloted the plan. The plane jerked
downward throwing Bessie from the plane. She fell 2,000 feet to her death. Her
body was taken to the Lawton L. Pratt funeral home. There were thousands of
mourners at two funerals held for her here in Jacksonville. One service was held
for Bessie at the Bethel Baptist Institutional Church of Jacksonville. Minister
Reverend Scott Bartley, Reverend T.H.B. Walker and Reverend John E. Ford
presided over the massive funeral. A second service was held for her in the
city at the St. Philips Episcopal Church on Union Street then lead by Reverend
Parchment. Other funerals were held for her in Orlando and in Chicago where
over 15,000 mourners filed pass her casket.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Jacksonville
is the only city relevant to this story that has not officially recognized Bessie
Coleman with an honor. This town needs to know that Chicago named a major road
leading to one of their major airports, Bessie Coleman Boulevard. There are
streets and schools named in her honor around this country. Jacksonville has
streets named after Amelia Earhart and the Wright brothers. Bessie has a closer
tie to Jacksonville than either of those great aviation pioneers but has not
been memorialized as they have. Such an important figure is worthy of your
attention and most importantly, making the record straight. An ideal piece
would be a series about Bessie Coleman explaining her heroics and the time in
which she lived. The city will get to know a pioneering woman who belongs to
this city because of her death here. This would be an award-winning story for a
talented journalist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Enclosed with this
correspondence is a copy of both a summary (attached) of her life, ebook and a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUdgJrfJjI8">documentary film</a> entitled
“Bessie Coleman: Flying the Blues.” I did this project several years ago while
a graduate student at U.N.F. The film has run on the city’s public access
channel. I will also be asking the City Council and Mayor Brown to consider
honoring Bessie Coleman in some official way. Thanks again and I can be reached
by email at politainment1@gmail.com or by text/call at 904-422-6078.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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