Zipporah Potter Atkins

Zipporah Potter Atkins in 1670 was the first black person to own land in Boston.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first black woman to earn a PhD in 1921 and the first woman to earn a law degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1927.

Evelyn Preer

Evelyn Preer became the first black actress to achieve celebrity status, nicknamed the “First Lady of the Screen” in the early 20th century.

Daisy Bates

Daisy Bates was President of the Arkansas Conference of the NAACP branches in 1952. She published the Arkansas State Press, a black newspaper. She advised the Little Rock Nine when they integrated the Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The Long Shadow of Little Rock was her memoir.

Camilla Williams

Camilla Williams was the first black person to receive a regular contract with a major American opera company, the New York City Opera, in 1946.

Amber Scott

Amber Scott founded Leap Year, an Atlanta-based nonprofit with the mission of helping low-income and first-generation college students succeed in 2017.

Dorothy Manyor

Dorothy Manyor founded Harlem School for the Arts in 1964.

Marley Dias

Marley Dias founded #1000BlackGirlBooks, a social media campaign to collect and donate children’s books with black girl protagonists and is the youngest person (age 13) on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list as of 2018.

Janet Mock

Janet Mock is the first black transgender woman to direct a television episode in her directorial debut for FX’s Pose in 2018.

Grace Hamilton

Grace Hamilton was the first black woman to hold a public office in the Deep South. She was elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1966 and served her district in Atlanta for 18 years.

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