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.
Read more "Daisy Bates"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.
Read more "Camilla Williams"Amber Scott founded Leap Year, an Atlanta-based nonprofit with the mission of helping low-income and first-generation college students succeed in 2017.
Read more "Amber Scott"Dorothy Manyor founded Harlem School for the Arts in 1964.
Read more "Dorothy Manyor"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.
Read more "Marley Dias"Janet Mock is the first black transgender woman to direct a television episode in her directorial debut for FX’s Pose in 2018.
Read more "Janet Mock"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.
Read more "Grace Hamilton"Lynette Woodard was the first woman to play with The Harlem Globetrotters in 1985.
Read more "Lynette Woodard"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.
Read more "Tarana Burke"Yara Shahidi is the first woman to be represented as an Iranian-African American Barbie doll in 2019.
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