Nannie Helen Burroughs studied business and domestic science in high school and graduated with honors in 1896. After graduation, Nannie was denied a teaching position
Marva Collins founded the Westside Preparatory School after 14 years of teaching in Chicago’s troubled public school system. She began the school on the second
Born a slave, an aunt bought Fanny’s freedom for $125 and then sent her to school in Rhode Island. Coppin was one of the first
Dr. Susan McKinney Steward is the first African American woman physician in New York and the third African American woman physician in the U.S. In
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American registered nurse in the United States. She enrolled in the New England Hospital for Women and Children
Dr. Aprille Ericsson-Jackson is the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University. She has worked as an aerospace engineer
After Ida Gray graduated from high school in 1887, she entered the University of Michigan Dental School. In 1890, she became the first African American
Condoleeza Rice enrolled at the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a bachelor’s degree in political science (cum laude).
Barbara became the first African American woman elected to the Texas state senate in 1966 and as a congresswoman in the U.S. House of Representative
In 1992, Carol Mosely-Braun was elected the first and only black woman to serve in the US Senate. Senator Mosely-Braun supported and passed legislature to
Shirley was one of four daughters born to West Indies working class parents. Her parents desired that all their girls received a good education. In
Sarah Goode became the second African American woman to receive a patent after she invented the Folding Cabinet Bed (a predecessor of the sofa bed).
Rosa Parks is known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. She was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1955, Rosa instigated
Ida B. Wells Barnett was a co-founder of the NAACP, an anti-lynch crusader and a Black female journalist. After earning degrees from Rust College and
Zora Neale Hurston was an anthropologists folklorist and writer. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, on January 7, 1891. Later at the age of three,
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