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  2. 19 Black figures who changed history - AOL

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    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.

  3. African-American women in the civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    Many Black women participating in informal leadership positions, acting as natural "bridge leaders" and, thus, working in the background in communities and rallying support for the movement at a local level, partly explains why standard narratives neglect to acknowledge the imperative roles of women in the civil rights movement.

  4. 100 Greatest African Americans - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The story of two Brooklyn sisters who forged a family of firsts

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    A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.

  6. African-American women's suffrage movement - Wikipedia

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    African-American women began experiencing the "Anti-Black" women's suffrage movement. [12] The National Woman Suffrage Association considered the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs to be a liability to the association due to Southern white women's attitudes toward black women getting the vote. [13]

  7. Female slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    To 'Joy My Freedom': Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War. (Harvard UP, 1997. Jennings, Thelma. " 'Us Colored Women Had to Go Though a Plenty': Sexual Exploitation of African-American Slave Women." Journal of Women's History 1.3 (1990): 45-74. Jones, Jacqueline.

  8. List of African-American women in STEM fields - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...

  9. How advocates are stepping up for Black History month as ...

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    Charles Hicks, nicknamed “Mr. Black History’’ in Washington, D.C, remembered attending a Black History Month event in 2016 at the Department of Justice where his longtime friend, the late ...

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