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First African-American woman in the U.S. Cabinet: Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; First African-American woman whose signature appeared on U.S. currency: Azie Taylor Morton, the 36th Treasurer of the United States; First African-American publisher of mainstream gay publication: Alan Bell [265] [266]
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
First African American woman star route mail carrier in the U.S. Mary Fields ( c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary , was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States .
First African-American woman to be elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and to any state legislature: Crystal Bird Fauset. 1939; First African-American woman to own a cosmetology school in Iowa: Pauline Brown Humphrey [11] 1948; First African American elected to the Delaware House of Representatives: William J. Winchester. 1950
Dr Dorothy Lavinia Brown [1] (January 7, 1914 – June 13, 2004 [2]), also known as "Dr. D.", [3] was an African-American surgeon, legislator, and teacher.She was the first female surgeon of African-American ancestry from the Southeastern United States.
Willa Beatrice Brown (January 22, 1906 – July 18, 1992) was an American aviator, lobbyist, teacher, and civil rights activist. [1] She was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States, [2] the first African American woman to run for the United States Congress, first African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol, and first woman in the U.S. to have both a ...
First African American woman to complete nurse's training in the U.S. Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States .
She was the first black American female lawyer in the United States. [1] [2] Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872. She was also the first female admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, and the first woman admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. [3]