This Week in Texas History: Barnstorming Bessie broke barriers

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On April 23, 1926, Bessie Coleman made the last payment on her new airplane and arranged for the second-hand Jenny to be flown to Jacksonville, Florida, site of her next air show.“Brave Bessie” was born in 1893 less than a dozen miles from the Arkansas border in the northeast Texas community of…

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