Oscar DePriest poses in front of a plane located on an airfield in Los Angeles, 1929. Oscar DePriest was part of the Bessie Coleman’s Aero Clubs, established to honor the memory of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman to earn an international pilot’s license. The image is inscribed, “Compliments of your friends of Bessie Coleman Aero Clubs 1423 St. Jefferson Blvd., Los Angles Calif, 9-30-1929.”