African American/Black Women in America

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  • Lucy Terry Prince

    Lucy Terry Prince
    Fisrt known black American poet.
    Wrote "Bars Fight"

  • Phillis Wheatly

    Phillis Wheatly

  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and helped others escape.

  • Sohourner Truth

    Sohourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth gives her famous "Ain't I A Woman" speech.

  • Madam C.J. Walker

    Madam C.J. Walker
    First female African-American millionaire.

  • Sadie Tanner Mossell

    Sadie Tanner Mossell
    First African-American woman to get a Ph.D.

  • Caterine Jarboro

    Caterine Jarboro
    First African-American opera singer.

  • Hattie McDaniel

    First African-American to win an Academy Award.

  • Alice Coachman

    First black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.

  • Gwendolyn Brooks

    First African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize.

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.

  • Althea Gibson

    The first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon.

  • Lorraine Hansberry

    First Afircan-American to have her play produced.

  • Interracial Marriage

    Laws that prevent interracil marriage end.

  • Shirley Chisholm

    Shirley Chisholm
    First black woman in Congress

  • Beverly Johnson

    Beverly Johnson
    First African-American woman to be on the cover of American Vogue.

  • Vanessa Williams

    First African-American Miss America.