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She was popularly known as "Queen Bess" and "Brave Bessie", [12] and hoped to start a school for African-American fliers. Coleman died in a plane crash in 1926. Coleman died in a plane crash in 1926. Her pioneering role was an inspiration to early pilots and to the African-American and Native American communities.
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Good News is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film directed by Nick Grinde, and starring Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards, and Penny Singleton. The film was shot in black-and-white, although the finale was in multicolor. The film is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. [4]
Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He was one of nearly 3,000 American volunteers who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War .
Bessie Anthony, golfer, U.S. Women's Amateur champion; Luis Aparicio, Hall of Fame infielder for Chicago White Sox (born in Venezuela) Clarence Applegran, basketball coach, Kentucky 1924–25; Amy Applegren, pro baseball player; Arthur I. Appleton, businessman, thoroughbred owner; Luke Appling, Hall of Fame infielder for White Sox (born in ...
Twelve-year-old Annabel Beam was only nine years old when she fell 30 feet from a tree and claimed she saw heaven. As Fox News Insider reports, "Annabel Beam was just five years old when she was ...
Bessie is a 2015 HBO TV film about the American blues singer Bessie Smith, and focuses on her transformation as a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues". The film is directed by Dee Rees , [ 1 ] with a screenplay by Rees, Christopher Cleveland and Bettina Gilois .
Bessie Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia, to James Henry and Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson. [1] She was the younger sister of famed Black historian and educator Carter G. Woodson . [ 3 ] She was educated in a school run by her uncles, John Morton and James Buchanan Riddle, until 1892, when the family moved back to Huntington, West Virginia ...