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Don Quixotte Villa in Le Crotoy, Picardy region of France

French vintage postcard

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Tour du Crotoy

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LE CROTOY-1975

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This is Bessie Coleman, an early American acrobatic aviator. She is the first Black pilot, the first Native American pilot, and one of the first female pilots.

Born on January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas to a family of sharecroppers, Bessie Coleman grew up in poverty. Her father abandoned the family when she was nine, and her elder brothers soon left as well, leaving her mother with the four youngest of her thirteen children. While taking care of her younger sisters, Bessie completed all eight available years of primary education, excelling in math. She enrolled at the Colored Agricultural and Normal University in Langston, Oklahoma in 1910, but lack of funds forced her to leave after only one term.

Five years later, she left the South and moved to Chicago to join her brother, where she worked as a beautician and manicurist for several years. An avid reader, she learned about World War I pilots in the newspaper and became intrigued by the prospect of flying. Her brother taunted her that she would never be able to fly. As a black woman, she had no chance of acceptance at any American pilot school, so she moved to France in 1919 and enrolled at the Ecole d'Aviation des Freres Caudon at Le Crotoy. After returning briefly to the United States, she spent one more term in France practicing more advanced flying before finally settling back in her birth country. She did exhibition flying and gave lectures across the country from 1922 to 1926. While flying, she refused to perform unless the audiences were desegregated.

Upon saving her money and nearing her goal of opening a flight school for blacks in the United States, Bessie Coleman was tragically killed on April 30, 1926 during a rehearsal for an aerial show when the airplane she was in unexpectedly went into a dive and then a spin, subsequently throwing Coleman from the airplane at 2,000 feet. Upon examination of the aircraft, it was later discovered that a wrench used to maintain the engine had jammed the controls of the airplane. Bessie was 34 years old. It is unknown whether her murder was an accident or intentional sabotage.

Despite her tragic fate, Coleman’s legacy of flight endures and she is credited with inspiring generations of African-American aviators, male and female, including the Tuskegee Airmen and NASA astronauts.

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Baroness de la Roche. Photo taken 2 weeks after she broke the women's world altitude record (formerly held by Ruth Law) on 22 July 1919. Later, she was killed when the plane she was flying at Crotoy collapsed.

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Black History Month: African American history you probably weren't taught in school

Bessie Coleman was the first African American, and first Native American woman, to pilot an airplane.

When Bessie Coleman's brother came home from fighting in World War I with stories of female pilots in France, she knew that was what she wanted to do.

But aviation programs wouldn't accept her. She was a woman, an African American, and a Native American. So instead, Coleman took off to France.

She attended the Caudron Brothers' School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, and in 1921, she became the first African American, and Native American woman, to pilot an airplane. She became famous for her flight tricks, which included making figure-eight patterns in the sky. Coleman became widely popular and toured the US giving performances, lessons, and encouraging African American women to fly.

Read more: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/bessie-coleman

Bessie Coleman. Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

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Observation des cabines du Crotoy

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Day 28 Wednesday 13 th September 2023

St Valerie sur Somme to Berck 65 km

As previously mentioned I hurt my back yesterday positioning my heavy bike . I’ve also hurt my bum climbing hills , I’ve a bruise in the shape of my saddle , go figure. (. I’m blaming the long climbs ) Chris kindly organized for a hotel stay since the forecast said rain again snd I’m suffering. He tried to book a hotel mentioning the bikes and she put the phone down on him. Well since it was available on booking . Com He went a head and booked it anyway. We nicknamed her sour puss and cycled the whole day to see what would happen.

Went through Le Crotoy. Looks nice .

On route we pasted a medical supply place that sold back braces. How fortunate for me. We arrived at sour puss hotel. She didn’t disappoint. Although the place had a terrace she wouldnt let us lock up our bikes . We had to carry them upstairs and keep them in our hotel room. The hotel was run down and old but someone knew how to make swans. What an adventure we are having.

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Alfred Manessier, painter inspired by the Baie de la Somme, in Picardie, France - one of the most magical places... The sweeping tides leave glistening planes that are, quite simply, astonishing.

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Villas on the beach of Le Crotoy, Picardy region of France

French vintage postcard

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crotoy

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Le Crotoy

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Kinage

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Saint-Valery-sur-Somme -LA SOMME (le Crotoy vu de st Valery)