Who was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field?
Wilma Glodean Rudolph
100
She was the First African American to win an Academy Award for her role in Gone With The Wind(1939, Best Supporting Actress)
Hattie McDaniel
100
She was the first African American writer to have her poetry published.
Phillis Wheatley
100
Who was the first black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license?
Bessie Coleman
100
Who was the first black Congresswoman, and who in 1972 ran for President and won 151 delegates at the Democratic Convention?
Shirley Chisholm
200
Who was America's first great black choreographer, dancer, and teacher who formed the first black dance troupe in the 1940s?
Katherine Dunham
200
She created her "own" television network after the longtime success of her talkshow that took place in Chicago, Ill.
Oprah Winfrey
200
She was the 1st African American to win the Nobel prize for Literature.
Toni Morrison
200
She was the first African American woman to become an Astronaut.
Dr. Mae Jemison
200
She was the 1st African American woman to be appointed to Secretary of State.
Condoleezza Rice
300
She was a dancer, singer, actor, fund raiser, author, and poet who read a specially-composed poem at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993.
Maya Angelou
300
She was the 1st woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, She was also mentioned in Rolling Stones list of "Greatest Singers of All-Time." And she demands RESPECT!
Aretha Franklin
300
After publishing her second book of poetry, Annie Allen, she became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 1949
Gwendolyn Brooks
300
First African-American female millionaire.
Madame C.J. Walker
300
She was the 1st African American appointed to U.S. Surgeon General
Joycelyn Elders
400
She was the 1st President of the National Association of Colored Women.
Mary Church Terrell
400
They were the first African American Female group to gain International Fame in 1965, after having the first album by an all-female group to reach number one on the US Billboard 200.
The Supremes
400
She was the first black woman to receive a federal commission for her art, during the Harlem Renaissance.1914.
Meta Warrick Fuller
400
First African-American female billionaire.
Sheila Crump Johnson, Co-Founder of B.E.T.
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Oprah Winfrey
400
She was the first African-American female lawyer to be accepted into the Bar in the United States. 1872
Charlotte E. Ray
500
In 2009 she was titled Artist of the Decade by The Guardian (UK) who also went on to say that she is arguably the greatest live performer of the past 10 years!