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Her trip to the stars landed Jemison in the history books as the first Black woman in space. Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) Shirley Chisholm (Universal History Archive / Getty Images)
Elizabeth (or Bessie) Coleman [ 13] was born on January 26, 1892, in Atlanta, Texas, [ 10] the tenth of 13 children of George Coleman, an African American who may have had Cherokee or Choctaw grandparents, and Susan Coleman, who was African American. [ 14][ 15] Nine of the children survived childhood, which was typical for the time. [ 14]
Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsɑːrtʃi]), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one ...
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 ...
The post 9 Black women who made history in the world of dance appeared first on TheGrio. From Solange Knowles to Josephine Baker, Black women have been breaking the mold in the field of dance for ...
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (born Rebecca Davis, February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. [ a] Crumpler was also one of the first female physician ...
Carol Moseley Braun entered the Senate in 1993 and was the first African-American woman in the Senate. [ 4] She served one term. Barack Obama entered the Senate in 2005 and, in 2008, became the first African American to be elected president of the United States. [ 5] Obama was still a senator when he was elected president and Roland Burris ...
African Americans. African American women played a variety of important roles in the 1954-1968 civil rights movement. They served as leaders, demonstrators, organizers, fundraisers, theorists, formed abolition and self-help societies. [1] They also created and published newspapers, poems, and stories about how they are treated and it paved the ...
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