Art & Music
Best known for her portraits of sophisticated or dignified working-class African Americans that she made during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, a flourishing period for the African-American arts.
Laura Wheeler Waring
This woman is the most known player for the WNBA and played her whole career at with the Los Angeles Sparks
Lisa Leslie
Survived after being shot in the head by a Taliban soldier at close range
Malala Yousafzai’
In January 2009, we elected our first Black president, who was the First Black First Lady?
Michelle Obama
She was one of the first woman of color to help create and send astronauts to the moon by calculating the flight-paths of spacecraft while working for NASA.
Katherine Johnson
She has 30 Billboard Music Awards, 29 NAACP Image Awards, 12 Soul Train Awards, and 6 Grammy Awards. She sang the national anthem for super bowl 25
Whitney Houston
Her father is the greatest boxer of all time, he floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
Laila Ali
First Black person to desegrated a school in the South
Ruby Bridges
First African American Attorney General for CA, now our first African American woman Vice President
Kamala Harris
In 1993, who was the first Latina to travel to space
Ellen Ochoa
Before she was an independent woman, Beyoncé was part of this group that hit with "Independent Woman, Pt. 1.
Destiny Child
She has wone all 23 grand slam titles in tennis....
The first African American Woman to be the principal for American Ballet Theatre
Misty Copeland
First Black women to become a mayor for San Francisco
London Breed
Led to the discovery of a genetic marker for breast cancer and the role of white blood cells in Alzheimer’s disease.
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Who is the queen of salsa that included African elements into her music, becoming a pioneer for what is known as Afro-Latinidad through her lyrics, rhythms, and dresses.
She holds a dual citizenship in Japan and United States
Naomi Osaka
In 1965, who created the United Farm Workers (an organization that improved farm worker conditions)
Doroles Huerta
In 2018, she was sworn in as the youngest woman elected to the House of Representatives in the body’s 230-year history.
AOC
Are you cold right now? She Black woman who created the heater in 1919
Alice H. Parker
She is known as Frida Kahlo, but her birth name was a little longer. What was her full birth name?
Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón
The first African American Woman to be the principal for American Ballet Theatre
Misty Copeland
Started a Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Girls in 1904
Mary Mcleod Bethune
In 1968, first African American woman elected to United States Congress and first African American woman to run for President
Shirley Chilsom
First black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT, the first black female president of a major technological institute, and went on to became the first black woman appointed chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Dr. Shirley Jackson