2021年2月9日 · Below is a list of Black women firsts, they are pioneers, teachers, overachievers, and glass ceiling breakers.

2023年2月2日 · Here’s a look at Black women who have made history with their “firsts” in the last 15 years. In 2022, Quinta Brunson became the first Black woman to receive three Emmy nominations in the...

Hazel O'Leary First African-American woman (and first woman), appointed as U.S. Secretary of Energy: Hazel R. O'Leary; First African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison; First African-American woman named Poet Laureate of the United States: Rita Dove; also the youngest person named to that position

We at BlackPast.org have assembled the following list which provides the names of the first African Americans in a variety of areas of achievement in government, law, diplomacy, the military, science and medicine, sports, literature, and other fields.

2021年3月1日 · Here are all the Black women who have and continue to inspire the next generation of young Black women to be the leaders of tomorrow: Kamala D. Harris made history as the first Black, first Asian-American, and first woman to ever be elected Vice President of the United States of America.

2020年12月12日 · Charlotte Ray has the distinction of being the first African American woman lawyer in the United States and the first woman admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia. Her father, active in New York City's Black community, made sure his young daughter was well educated; she received her law degree from Howard University in 1872 and was ...

2022年2月1日 · Find out what groundbreaking organization Ida B. Wells helped to found, who the first Black woman in space was, and a host of other facts on notable figures in history including Maya Angelou,...

2023年2月15日 · U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey became a Congressman from South Carolina in 1870 and was reelected four more times. The first Black female U.S. Representative was Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York, who served from 1969 to 1983.

2017年2月20日 · Mary Jane Patterson became the first African-American woman to receive a college degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862. The daughter of fugitive slaves, she went on to have an illustrious career as an educator and, in 1871, she became the first black principal of the newly-founded Preparatory High School for Negroes.

Carla Haden is the first woman and first African American to be Librarian of Congress. Loretta Lynch is the first Black woman to become U.S. Attorney General. Ilhan Omar is the first Somali-American Muslim person to become a legislator. Issa Rae is the first Black woman to create and star in a premium cable series.