Black Women in History
This black woman made 20 trips back South, guiding about 300 other freedom-seeking enslaved people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
She was the first black First Lady of the United States from 2009-2017
Who is Michelle Obama?
First African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Who was the first African American Woman mayor?
Lelia Foley- Davis
The amount of black women in the US House of Representatives.
28
Who was the first black woman to be elected to lead Florida's House Democrats
Fentrice Driskell
This black woman was a poet, civil rights activist, author, and widely known for the publication “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. She is also an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Who is Maya Angelou?
She was Cleveland's Representative and the 18th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development since 2021.
Who is Marcia Fudge?
She was the first black woman to graduate from Ohio University.
Martha Blackburn
This black woman spoke up against the lynching of black people in the U.S. and later became a co-founder of the NAACP.
Who is Ida B Wells?
She became the first black women congressmen in 1968, and ran for president 4 years later, making her the first major- party Black candidate to run.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
She served as the vice president of the NAACP from 1940 until she died in 1955, she also founded a boarding school that eventually became Bethune-Cookman College.
Who is Mary Bethune?
Who was the first black woman to join the supreme court.
Ketanji Brown.
First Black woman to ever be elected to Congress.
Who is Lisa Blunt Rochester?
These three black women who worked at NASA are known as the brains behind launching the first man on the moon. These women were also members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Who are Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Wilson? (or Hidden Figures)