Violette Neatly Anderson

Violette Neatly Anderson was the first black woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1926.

ImeIme Umana

ImeIme Umana is the first black woman to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review in 2017.

Frances Thompson

Frances Thompson, a freed slave, transgender woman, testified before Congress in 1866 about the Memphis riots.

Otelia Cromwell

Otelia Cromwell was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. from Yale University, PhD in English, in 1926.

Omayeli Arenyeka

Omayeli Arenyeka founder The Gendered Project — “a growing library of gendered words in the English dictionary.”

Carla Williams

Carla Williams was the first black woman to lead the athletic department at any of the NCAA’s Power Five conferences in 2018.

Alison Désir

Alison Désir founded Harlem Run in 2013. Harlem Run is “a collective of runners passionate about running and community.”

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 2014’s President of Liberia and Africa’s first female head of state, won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting Liberian reconciliation and in atoning for Liberia’s history of civil war.

Euphemia Haynes

Euphemia Haynes was known as the first black woman mathematician after earning her PhD in mathematics in 1943.

Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill in 1999 became the first woman of any race to garner 5 Grammy awards in one night.

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