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.

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

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Dorothy Manyor founded Harlem School for the Arts in 1964.

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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.

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

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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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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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