From about 2,400 in 1910, the number of African American women in nursing had more than ... should have a hospital where both black and white doctors could study and where black nurses could ...

Clemson University has lost its first tenured African American professor at the College of Education. Dr. Margaree S. Crosby.

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.