Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took Flight | Karyn Parsons (Author) + R Gregory Christie (Illustrated by) story book The problem is your system

The problem is your system

Congressman John Lewis was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

and many more influential people of color for years to come

young Coretta Scott knew the unfairness of life in the segregated south

Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took Flight | Karyn Parsons (Author) + R Gregory Christie (Illustrated by) story book The problem is your systemBased on Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to earn her pilot's license. Before Bessie Coleman blazed a high trail with her plane . . . Before she performed in death defying flying shows that would earn her fame as "Queen Bess" . . . Before she traveled the country speaking out against discrimination, Bessie was a little girl with a big imagination that