Bessie may have been the pioneering source of Black American involvement in aviation. This book correlates the socio-political ideologies and the cultural activities pursued by American people during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how this influenced the cultural activities of Bessie Coleman.

Introduction: a note on methodology; In summation: the significance of Bessie Coleman -- Present possibilities and future forces: a socio-political overview; Women as political and cultural activist; The transformation of American entertainment; African Americans and the French connection melodrama, technology, brainstorming and film -- "Jump at the sun" -- "Lady didn't your plane stop up there?" -- "There shall be no regrets".