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First known African-American woman to graduate from one of the Seven Sisters colleges: Hortense Parker (Mount Holyoke College) [88] [Note 7] First African-American woman to earn a PhD. Nettie Craig-Asberry June 12, 1883, earns her doctoral degree in music from the University of Kansas one month shy of her 18th birthday.
Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities is a compilation of biographies of African-American women by Monroe Alpheus Majors published in 1893 in Chicago. [1] Majors sketched the lives of nearly 300 women, including Edmonia Lewis, Amanda Smith, Ida B. Wells, and Sojourner Truth. [2] Majors began to compile the book in Waco, Texas, in ...
Notable Black American Women is a three-volume series by Jessie Carney Smith profiling 1,100 Black American women. The first volume, with 500 profiles, was published in 1992, the second in 1994, and the third in 2003, all by Gale. Smith spent more than twenty years researching for the book.
In her lifetime, Wright accomplished several “firsts,” including being the first Black woman to be named associate dean of a nationally recognized medical institution (New York Medical College ...
In the 1920s, Malone’s brand soared, making her one of the wealthiest African-American women of her time. She used her fortune for philanthropy, donating to institutions like Howard University ...
Judy Woodford Reed (c. 1826 – c. 1905) [1] was an African-American woman alive during the 1880s, whose only records are a US patent and censuses. Reed, from Virginia, is considered the first African American woman to receive a US patent. Patent No. 305,474 for a "Dough Kneader and Roller" was granted September 23, 1884. The patent was for an ...
Lucy Stanton Day Sessions (October 16, 1831 – February 18, 1910) was an American abolitionist and feminist [1] figure, notable for being the first African-American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university.
Josephine Silone Yates helped to found the Women's League of Kansas City, an organization for the self-help and social betterment for African-American women, and became its first president in 1893. In 1896, the Women's League joined the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), a federation of similar clubs from around the country. [6]