Unita Blackwell born in 1933 was the first black woman to become a mayor in Mississippi in 1976.

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Ella Hill Hutch was the first black woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

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Mary Kenner invented the sanitary belt which was not patented until thirty years later in 1956 because she was a black woman. She held four other patents including the tissue holder, held with her sister.

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Lucy Hicks Anderson born in 1886, died in 1954, an activist, chef, and socialite, one of the early pioneers as a black transgender woman.

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Lisa Daniels is the Executive Director of Unsung Heroes Living History Project which collects and preserves stories of blacks in the military.

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Natalie Devora is an activist and author of Black Girl White Skin: A Life in Stories.

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Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, a national network that elevates women of color leaders and voters as part of a new progressive political and cultural era.

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Akwaeke Emezi is the first non-binary transgender author to be nominated for The Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019.

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Janice Bryant Howroyd is the first black woman to run a billion-dollar business as the founder and CEO of Act 1 Group, Inc. in 1978.

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Luvvie Ajayi is the executive director of The Red Pump Project, a non-profit she co-founded in 2009 that empowers and educates women and girls of color about HIV/AIDS to help eliminate the stigma associated with the epidemic.

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