Woman A
She was born a slave and raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Her real name when she was born was Araminta Ross.
Harriet Tubman
A former president met this Black woman at Harvard Law School
Who is Michelle Obama?
This best-selling author, educator and civil rights activist used her poetry to inspire and empower.
Maya Angelou
She is a four time gold medal champion
Who is Simone Biles?
This activist is Missouri's first Black woman U.S. House Representative
Who is Cori Bush?
Born Isabella Baumfree, she escaped slavery with her infant daughter and changed her name. She’s best known for her speech delivered at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851 titled “Ain’t I A Woman?”
Sojourner Truth.
This revolutionary American educator and former Black Panther has fought for race, class and gender equality over the years. Davis authored one of the of the most distinguished books in the field of women’s studies called Women, Race & Class. She’s also an advocate of prison reform.
Angela Davis
She won the Australian Open while was pregnant
Serena Williams
She has been called the Mother of the Freedom Movement.
Rosa Parks
She became the first black woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first black woman to stage a public flight in the United States. She specialized in stunt flying and parachuting and remains a pioneer for women in aviation.
Bessie Coleman
This famous Zeta was an anthropologist and author of the Harlem Renaissance. Though she didn’t receive much recognition for her work while she was alive, her works of fiction, especially Their Eyes Were Watching God, became staples in American literature.
Zora Neale Hurston
Although the Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, many all-white schools in the South were still not completely on board with welcoming black students. She was only 6 years old when she passed the entrance exam to attend an all-white elementary school, William Frantz Elementary School, in her New Orleans neighborhood, and in 1960, she became the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white elementary school in the south. Federal marshals escorted her and her mother past angry protesters each day. Later she wrote two books about her experiences and received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award.
Ruby Bridges
First black principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre on her historic rise.
Misty Copeland
Northrop Grumman is naming the NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft after pioneering NASA mathematician in the movie HIDDEN FIGURES
Katherine Johnson
She was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Mammy” in Gone with the Wind (1939), becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
Hattie McDaniel
This Black woman became the second Black woman to be an American Senator in the United States of America
Who is Kamala Harris?
Born into a family of 22 children and having polio and scarlet fever as a child, she become a world-class athlete. She made history at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, as the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympic games. She earned her medals in the 100m, 200m, and 4X100m relay events.
Wilma Rudolph
She created hair-care solutions and remedies with Black women in mind and sold them door-to-door. She eventually created a brand people recognized, widely manufactured her products, and hired 40,000 ambassadors since the company's inception to help her sell her products
Madam C.J. Walker
In 2007, she opened her own school in South Africa
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
In 1773, she was the first African-American poet to publish a book, It was called "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." She went on to publish poems such as "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and "On Virtue."
Phillis Wheatley
A civil rights activist from Mississippi who fought for African Americans' right to vote, often helping them to register. She worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for a time, fighting against racial segregation and violent voter suppression in the South. She was also one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Fannie Lou Hamer
The oldest potential ancestor for every known hominin species.
Lucy
The nickname of this highly decorated U.S. track and field Olympian is...chicken legs
Who is Allyson Felix
After struggling to go to school and working on a plantation to help support her family, she became an educator and, in 1904, founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Institute for Girls
Mary McLeod Bethune
She is the first African-American woman candidate to run for President of the United States.
Charlene Mitchell