Lynette Woodard
Lynette Woodard was the first woman to play with The Harlem Globetrotters in 1985.
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Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke founded the #MeToo movement in 2006, an outgrowth of Just Be Inc., the organization she started that same year to empower young women of color.
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Yara Shahidi is the first woman to be represented as an Iranian-African American Barbie doll in 2019.
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La June Montgomery Tabron was the first woman and first black person to hold the position of president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in 2013.
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Violette Neatly Anderson was the first black woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1926.
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ImeIme Umana is the first black woman to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review in 2017.
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Frances Thompson, a freed slave, transgender woman, testified before Congress in 1866 about the Memphis riots.
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Otelia Cromwell was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. from Yale University, PhD in English, in 1926.
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Omayeli Arenyeka founder The Gendered Project — “a growing library of gendered words in the English dictionary.”
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Carla Williams was the first black woman to lead the athletic department at any of the NCAA’s Power Five conferences in 2018.
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