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Unita Blackwell. 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 ...
Wednesdays in Mississippi. Wednesdays in Mississippi was an activist group during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s. Northern women of different races and faiths traveled to Mississippi to develop relationships with their southern peers and to create bridges of understanding across regional, racial, and class lines.
Vicksburg, Mississippi. Died. 1996. Occupation. Educator. Known for. Being the first African American woman in the United States to earn her doctorate in education. Jane Ellen McAllister (24 October 1899 – 1996) was an American educator. She was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in Education in the United States, and the first ...
Vivian Pinn in 1991 is the first woman appointed the director of the office of research on women's health at the National Institutes of Health. [34] Elinor Powell was a World War II nurse working for the Army who defied anti-miscegenation laws. [133] Inez Prosser in 1933 became the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in psychology ...
University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center. UMMC houses seven health science schools: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health ...
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, [1] and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. [2]
First African-American woman to practice law in Maryland. Juanita Elizabeth Jackson Mitchell (January 2, 1913 – July 7, 1992) was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and was the first African-American woman to practice law in Maryland. She was married to Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., mother of two Maryland State Senators, and grandmother of one.
Panel shares insight on women's health, children's health, infrastructure in Jackson. Gannett. Pam Dankins, Mississippi Clarion Ledger. September 5, 2024 at 7:30 PM. A Thursday panel conversation ...