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  2. Black women - Wikipedia

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    Black women have higher rates of HIV than white and Hispanic women. [54] Black women have the highest risk for genital herpes. [55] Black women also have higher rates of chlamydia than white women. [56] Trichomoniasis is more common among African American women. [57] Black women are more likely to die from cervical cancer. [58]

  3. 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]

  4. Black women in American politics - Wikipedia

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    Hazel R. O'Leary became the second Black woman to serve in the Cabinet during the Clinton administration as Secretary of Energy. Alexis Herman was the first Black woman to serve as the Secretary of Labor during the tenure of President Bill Clinton after serving as the Director of the Women's Bureau under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 ...

  5. Category:African-American women - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American women. It includes American women that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to African American women .

  6. List of African-American women in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. [1] Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. The first nursing graduate was Mary Mahoney in 1879.

  7. 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.

  8. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in ...

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    First edition. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America is a book published in 2011 through Yale University Press written by the American MSNBC television host, feminist, and professor of Politics and African American Studies at Tulane University, Melissa Harris-Perry. [1]

  9. Angry black woman - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. Stereotype of Black women This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The "angry black woman ...