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==Honors==
[[File:2023 Bessie Coleman Womens Quarter.jpg|thumb|In 2023 Coleman was honored in the [[American Women quarters]] series. 6-15-21 is the date she was awarded he international pilots license.]]
* [[Atlanta, Texas]], has a Regional History Museum which displays a downscale reproduction version of Bessie Coleman's yellow bi-plane "Queen Bess." The museum display also includes a uniform and other memorabilia regarding the life and times of Bessie Coleman. Outside the regional history museum is a Texas Historical Marker located at 101 N. East Street in Historic Downtown, Atlanta. The road to the Hall-Miller Municipal Airport in Atlanta is named Bessie Coleman Drive in her honor.
* A public library in Chicago was named in Coleman's honor,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chipublib.org/about-coleman-branch/ |title=About Coleman Branch |work=Chicago Public Library |access-date=February 28, 2017}}</ref> as are roads at [[O'Hare International Airport]] in Chicago,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/320340442 |title=Bessie Coleman Drive, Chicago |website=OpenStreetMap |access-date=October 13, 2017}}</ref> [[Oakland International Airport]] in California,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/53790862 |title=Bessie Coleman Drive, Alameda |website=OpenStreetMap |access-date=October 13, 2017}}</ref> [[Tampa International Airport]] in Florida,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/147380733 |title=Bessie Coleman Boulevard, Tampa |website=OpenStreetMap |access-date=October 13, 2017}}</ref> and at Germany's [[Frankfurt International Airport]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/38767016 |title=Bessie-Coleman-Straße, Frankfurt |website=OpenStreetMap |access-date=October 13, 2017}}</ref> A memorial plaque has been placed by the [[Chicago Cultural Center]] at the location of her former home, 41st and King Drive in Chicago, and it is a tradition for African-American aviators to drop flowers during flyovers of her grave at [[Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)|Lincoln Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribute.org/Markers/Coleman.htm |title=Markers of Distinction: Bessie Coleman |website=Chicago Tribute |publisher=City of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center |access-date=March 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214113847/http://chicagotribute.org/Markers/Coleman.htm |archive-date=February 14, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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