Tag: African-American Women

Singer, actress, record producer, and songwriter. The founding member and lead singer of Supreme – America’s most successful vocal group.
Category: Music.

A civil rights activist, journalist, and publisher. Played a key role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
Category: Media.

Educator, civil rights leader, politician. The first African-American to serve in Maryland State Senate and the second black woman to be elected to a state senate in the US.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Academy & Education, Activism & Feminism.

A member of the British royal family; a former actress and fashion blogger.
Category: Theater & Cinema, Fashion & Beauty, Politics & Leaders, Philanthropy.

Businesswoman, educator, and civil rights activist. The first woman in the US to found a bank and to serve as its president.
Category: Economics & Finance, Business & Entrepreneurship.

A Politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and bestselling author. The first African-American woman to be a major party’s nominee for governor, the first African-American to lead in the House of Representatives of Georgia, and the first African-American woman and first Georgian to deliver a Response to the State of the Union.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Activism & Feminism.

An economist and attorney. The first African-American woman in the US to earn a Ph.D. in economics, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the first African-American woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.
Category: Law, Economics & Finance.

A singer, businesswoman, and social activist. The oldest National Park Ranger in the US.
Category: Academy & Education.

A poet, journalist, playwright, and political activist. Associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
Category: Literature & Poetry, Activism & Feminism.

The first professional African-American and Native American sculptress to gain an international reputation.
Category: Arts.