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Betty Skelton Erde wasn't technically a NASCAR driver, but she drove the pace car at Daytona in 1954, and was clocked at a speed of 105.88 mph (170.40 km/h) on the sand, setting a stock car speed record for women. [8] No woman had raced NASCAR in a decade when Janet Guthrie started the 1976 World 600, [9] finishing 15th, ahead of Dale Earnhardt ...
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This is a list of female motor racing drivers who have entered an Indianapolis 500 race. Ten women racing drivers have officially entered at least once, with Janet Guthrie being the first. Sarah Fisher has the most career starts with nine, and Danica Patrick has the best result with a third place in 2009.
“For Black people, who have been held back in society, building cars was a way to have a great life.” She expected the same for herself when she began at Chrysler in 2010.
Car colour popularity. The most popular car colours as of 2012 were greyscale colours, with over 70% of cars produced globally being white, black, grey or silver. Red, blue and brown / beige cars ranged between 6% and 10% each, while all other colours amounted to less than 5%. [ 1][ 2]
“It is even more symbolic that the first woman ever elected to national office and the first Black to serve as vice president, who has devoted much of her vice-presidential energies to making ...
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [ 1][ 2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the ...
Women in Black staging a protest in New Paltz, New York. Women in Black (Hebrew: נשים בשחור, romanized: Nashim BeShahor) is a women's anti-war movement with an estimated 10,000 activists around the world. The first group was formed by Israeli women in Jerusalem in 1988, following the outbreak of the First Intifada. [1]