Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Elizabeth Freeman is a trailblazer and her efforts don’t go unnoticed. Many enslaved African American peoples’ efforts, let alone the efforts of enslaved women, go unnoticed, but it's essential to realize how influential and integral Freeman was to the growth and progression of society.
Sarah E. Goode was the fourth African American woman known to have received a US patent. The first and second were Martha Jones of Amelia County, Virginia, for her 1868 corn-husker upgrade [ 23 ] and Mary Jones De Leon of Baltimore, Maryland, for her 1873 cooking apparatus.
She was the first African-American woman to attend graduate school at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Through WVSC's president, John W. Davis , she became one of three African-American students, [ 16 ] and the only woman, selected to integrate the graduate school after the 1938 United States Supreme Court ruling in ...
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) [1] [2] was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. [3]
Clara Brown was born into slavery near Fredericksburg, Virginia, on January 1, 1800. [2] [a] At a young age, Clara and her mother were sold to Ambrose Smith, a tobacco farmer in Virginia, and worked in the fields. [4]
Remond is thought to be the only black woman [22] who was among the 1500 signatories to a women-only 1866 petition requesting the right of women to vote. [23] Returning briefly to the U.S., Remond joined with the American Equal Rights Association working for equal suffrage for women and African Americans. [21]
Katie Geneva Cannon (January 3, 1950 – August 8, 2018) was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology. [3] [4] In 1974 she became the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA). [5] [6]