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Find out what groundbreaking organization Ida B. Wells helped to found, who the first Black woman in space was, and a host of other facts on notable figures in history including Maya Angelou ...
Parks became one of the most impactful Black women in American history almost overnight when she refused to move to the “colored” section of a public bus in 1955. ... Jane Bolin was a New York ...
First African-American women appointed as police officers: Cora I. Parchment at the New York Police Department (NYPD) [127] and Georgia Ann Robinson, by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) [128] First African American to direct a feature film : Oscar Micheaux ( The Homesteader )
Four years later, she became the first Black female athlete to endorse an international consumer product when she signed on as a Coca-Cola spokesperson. Over the course of her career, she won 34 ...
Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. [1] Walker, Erica N (2014). Beyond Banneker: Black mathematicians and the path to excellence. [215] Williams, Lisa D (2000).
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture ...
For many years, school curricula have limited their scope to the same Black figures throughout history. While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are ...