Violet Palmer
Violet Palmer 1st openly gay NBA referee.
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Violet Palmer
Violet Palmer 1st woman to referee an NBA All Star game.
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Violet Palmer 1st woman NBA referee in 1997.
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Judy Reed 1st black woman to hold a patent in 1884.
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Evelyn Ashford, 1992, at age 35 became the oldest American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.
Read more "Evelyn Ashford"Black Heritage Stamps: Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin was a black composer and pianist who wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas.
Read more "Black Heritage Stamps: Scott Joplin"Black Heritage Stamps: William Boyd Allison Davis
William Boyd Allison Davis was the first black man to hold a full faculty position at a major white university, University of Chicago, 1942.
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Mareena Robinson Snowden 1st black woman to receive a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT in 2018.
Read more "Mareena Robinson Snowden"Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza queer cofounder Black Lives Matter.
Read more "Alicia Garza"Black Heritage Stamps: Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was the 1st black woman to win a case against a white man, 1838
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