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This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.
Much of the population is concentrated in Metro East, a five-county region across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. The state's first African American newspaper was established in Southern Illinois' southernmost town, Cairo , in 1862.
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 ...
William Henry Hooper (1813–1882), engaged in trade on the Mississippi River in the mid-1830s in Galena; later became a member of the LDS Church; Utah delegate to the United States Congress (1859–1861, 1865–1873) Thomas Hoyne (1817–1883), US District Attorney for Illinois
For Black History Month this year, Rosie is putting a spotlight on Black inventors as well, whose contributions to American history often go unnoticed. 6-Year-Old Impersonates Black History's ...
The Chicago Black Renaissance and women's activism (U of Illinois Press, 2023. Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America (1991). Logan, John R., Weiwei Zhang, and Miao David Chunyu. "Emergent ghettos: Black neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880–1940." American Journal of Sociology 120.4 (2015 ...
Coleman returned to American, and on September 3, 1922, she made the first public flight by a Black woman in the U.S. in a plane she borrowed. Coleman worked her way into barnstorming, a form of ...
Out of these, 24 states, plus U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected an African-American woman to represent them in the U.S. House. Illinois's 1st congressional district has the longest continuous streak of electing African-American representatives, a tendency that has occurred from 1928 to the present.