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Unita Zelma Blackwell (March 18, 1933 – May 13, 2019) was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. [1] Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across ...
John Wheatley was known as a progressive throughout New England; his family afforded Phillis an unprecedented education for an enslaved person, and one unusual for a woman of any race at the time. By the age of 12, Phillis was reading Greek and Latin classics in their original languages, as well as difficult passages from the Bible. [ 11 ]
First African American woman star route mail carrier in the U.S. Mary Fields ( c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary , was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States .
This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.
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.
Asya Branch (born 1998), Miss Mississippi 2018, Miss Mississippi USA 2019, and Miss USA 2020 ; Jenna Edwards (born 1981), former Miss Florida and Miss Florida USA ; Ruth Ford (1911–2009), model ; Taryn Foshee (born 1985), Miss Mississippi 2006 ; Tess Holliday (born 1985), first plus-size model
The Mississippi University for Women honored former students Diane Hardy, Barbara Turner, Laverne Greene-Leech, Jacqueline Edwards, Mary Flowers and Eula Houser who integrated the institution in ...
Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [1] to Edwin and Edna Horne on June 30, 1917. [2] Both sides of her family were biracial African Americans. [citation needed] She belonged to the well-educated upper stratum of Black New Yorkers at the time.