When Bessie Coleman Was A Child She Wanted To Be In School Not In The Cotton Fields Of Texas Helping Her Family Earn Money She Wanted To Be Somebody Significant In The World So Bessie Did Everything She Could To Learn Under The Most Challenging Of Circumstances At The End Of Every Day In The Fields She Checked The Foremans Numbers Made Sure His Math Was Correct And This Was Just The Beginning Of A Life Of Hard Work And Dedication That Really Paid Off Bessie Became The First Africanamerican To Earn A Pilots License She Was Somebody