Famous females
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion
Gail Fisher
Gail Fisher was an American actress who was one of the first black women to play substantive roles in American television
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president
Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress
Marie Maynard Daly
Marie Maynard Daly was an American biochemist. She was the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice
Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett
Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett, lead scientists on the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine team
Lena Horne
Lena Horne was an American dancer, actress, singer, and civil rights activist
Mae Carol Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor
Viola Davis
Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. The recipient of an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, she is the first African-American to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting".
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020
Raphael Warnock
Raphael Warnock was Georgias first black senator
Angela Davis
Angela Davis was a major activist in the late 1960s and early '70s. Profoundly affected by her childhood in the segregated city of Birmingham, Alabama
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University
Raiford Chatman Davis
Raiford Chatman Davis was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with who he frequently performed
Harriet Tubman
Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends
Cori Bush
Cori Bush, was Missouri’s first Black Congresswoman
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King is the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, she continued the work of her late husband. She founded the "Martin Luther King, Jr, Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta."
Alice Augusta Ball
Alice Augusta Ball was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.
Samuel Leroy Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and producer. One of the most widely recognized actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time.
Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee
Sydney Barber
Sydney Barber, was U.S. Naval Academy’s first Black female brigade commander