Amelia Boynton Robinson helped to organize the 1965 Selma march. She also became the first Black woman to run for Congress in Alabama! Although her candidacy was unsuccessful it helped to highlight and bring awareness to voter suppression. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHerstory

Jane Bolin, a graduate of Wellesley College became the first Black woman to graduate from Yale School of Law. In 1939, she became the first Black woman to become a judge. She ruled on family court cases.
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Dorothy Height was hailed as the “godmother of the women’s movement. Height used her background working in education to advance social work and women’s rights. She was present at the 1963 March on Washington. Height also served as the 10th national president of ΔΣΘ. #BHM

Gwendolyn Brooks is revered as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. Born in 1917, she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. She was also the poet laureate for the state of Illinois.
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Daisy Bates helped to start one of the first Black newspapers entirely dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement and The National Women’s History Museum Notes. Her NAACP chapter where she served as president played a role in organizing the Little Rock Nine.
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Dr Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) became the first African American woman to earn a PhD in History and Romance Languages. She is one of the seminal scholars of Black feminist thought.
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Rosetta Tharpe,a queer Black woman born in Arkansas in 1915 is known as the Godmother of Rock and Roll. She was one of the only singers of her time to perform BOTH gospel and secular. She also performed alongside Duke Ellington. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHerstory

M.G.L.G.L. Ethel Hedgeman-Lyle was known as the “guiding light” of the first Greek lettered sorority founded for Black women. Hedgeman-Lyle was an educator from St. Louis, Missouri whose visionary efforts still exist today.
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Osceola McCarthy-Adams born in Albany, Georgia in 1890. McCarthy- Adams was one of the first Black women actresses on Broadway. She served as the Director of the Harlem school of the arts. She’s also a founding member of Delta Sigma Theta. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHerstory

Most Honorable Fannie Pettie-Watts was born in Perry, GA in 1899. She worked as a Social Investigator for the Department of Social Service in Brooklyn,New York. A street in Bed-Stuy is named after her. She’s also a co-founder of Zeta Phi Beta.
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Dr. Alexa Canady became the first Black woman neurosurgeon in the U.S. in 1981. She save thousands of lives during her career—mostly children. In 1989, she was inducted into the Woman’s hall of fame for her efforts. A legend!
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Amber Mildred Ruffin is an actress, comedian, writer, and television host. She is a writer for the Seth Myers show. This role made Ruffin the first Black woman to write for a late night network show.

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Constance Baker Motley was a key strategist of the civil rights movement. She was also a lawyer, judge, and a state Senator from New York. She was the first African American woman to serve as a federal judge in 1966.
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Marsha P. Johnson was a Black transgender woman and an activist. Marsha is most known for the role she played in the riots of Stonewall. She is alleged to be the first person to throw a brick that began the uprising against police brutality.
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Dr. Patricia Era Bath was an African American ophthalmologist. She was the inventor of laser cataract surgery. The tool that she invented to conduct this procedure is called the Lazerphaco probe. She was a graduate of Howard University College of Medicine.
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Dr. Sayde Curry is the first African American woman in the United States to become a gastroenterologist. She was also the first post graduate trainee at Duke University in 1969. Dr Curry is a graduate of @JCSUniversity and Howard University Medical School.
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Justice Sandra L. Townes born in Spartanburg, SC in 1944 became the first Black woman appointed as a federal judge in the Eastern district of New York. Justice Townes earned degrees from @JCSUniversity and Syracuse University College of Law. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHerstory

Faya Ora Rose Toure’—formerly Rose Sanders was born in Salisbury,NC in 1945.A civil rights attorney/activist who is Alabama’s first African American woman judge.She is a graduate of both Johnson C. Smith University and Harvard University School of Law.
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Longtime educator Vivian Irene White-Marbury was one of the first African American women principals in Indianapolis. She was one of the oldest living members of any NPHC sorority— she lived to be 100. White-Marbury is a founding member of ΣΓΡ.
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Dr. Dorothy Cowser-Yancy was born in Cherokee County,Alabama in 1944. She was the 12th president of JCSU and the first woman president. She was the first woman to lead the CIAA and was inducted into the hall of fame.
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Alice Coachman was born in Albany, GA in 1923. Coachman is the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold medal in the 1948 London games. She set the high jump record at those games. Alice was inducted into the hall of fame in 1975 and 2004.
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Dr. Catherine McKee-McCottry was born in Charlotte,NC in 1921. Catherine was the first Black woman in Charlotte to become a medical doctor in the 20th century. She was the first Black woman OBGYN in Charlotte NC. She is a graduate of Barber Scotia, JCSU, and Howard Med.
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Dr. Alicia Nicki Washington a native of Durham, NC is a graduate of both Johnson C. Smith University and North Carolina State University. She is the first Black woman to ever become faculty in the Department of computer science at Howard University.
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Kimberle’ Crenshaw, Esq., was born in Canton, Ohio in 1959. She’s an attorney, professor, civil rights advocate, and lead critical race theory scholar. Crenshaw is the mother of “Intersectionality” and creator of #SayHerName.

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Dr. Gloria J. Ladson-Billings is an American pedagogical theorist and educator of teachers. Ladson-Billings is responsible for helping to build the connection between CRT and education in its formative years.
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@ava (Ava Duvernay) is an American filmmaker. Duvernay who was born in Long Beach, CA, was the first Black woman to win the directing award at Sundance (2012). She is most known for these works: Selma; When They See Us; The 13th, Queen Sugar and more.
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Eleanora Fagan (Billie Holiday) a queer Black woman was born in Philadelphia,PA in 1915. Her career which spanned 26 years earned her the nickname “Lady Day”. She influenced both jazz and pop. Her song “Strange Fruit” made her a target of the FBI who tried to silence her.
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