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Her story; Mabel Fairbanks Maple Fairbanks was a pioneering African-American figure skater that broke barriers in the skating world for people of color, was a top coach to several olympians, and in 1997 became the first African-American woman inducted int
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NorCal State's Competition take II. A little power outage, and 24 hour delay can't keep this team down. Let's go @accelgymnasticsteam , you got this!
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Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) was a mother, grandmother, daughter, and wife. Tragically, Mrs. Lacks past away from cervical cancer at at age 31. However her cells live on today, 66 year after her passing, and have been essential to developing the polio vacc
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Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) was a mother, grandmother, daughter, and wife. Tragically, Mrs. Lacks past away from cervical cancer at at age 31. However her cells live on today, 66 year after her passing, and have been essential to developing the polio vacc
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Her Story: Maya Angelou (1928-2014) . . Maya Angelo (born Marjorie Annie Johnson in April 4th 1928) was an American poet, an award-winning author and civil rights activist. She was an amazingly brilliant and talented human being that persisted through adv
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Her Story: Angela Davis . Angela Davis (born 1944), is an activist, scholar, politician and educator. Born in Birmingham, Alabama in an area referred to as “Dynamite Hill” because so many African American homes in this neighborhood had been bombed over th
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Her Story: Mamie Smith . Actress and singer, Mamie Smith (1883-1946) made history in 1920 when she recorded "crazy blues" considered by scholars to be the very first blues recording. . Smith was glamorous and multi-talented performer who began her career
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Her Story: Viola Davis The amazingly talented Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) recently made history when she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the very African-American performer to win Tony, Emmy and Oscar awards in acting
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Roger Arliner Young (1889-1964) was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in zoology in 1940. She was also the first African-American woman to research and publish in the field of animal biology during her Ph.D. studies at the University
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Her Story: Toni Stone In 1953 Toni Stone signed with the National League's Indianapolis Clowns to play 2nd base in Hank Arron’s place, making her the first woman ever to play professional baseball in the United States. During the fifty games that Stone pl
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Sojourner Truth was a womens’ rights activist and abolitionist. She was born into slavery in the State of New York c 1797 as Isabella Baumfree. When she was just 9 years old she was sold for $100 with a flock of sheep and separated from her parents and si
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Barbara Hillary (1931) Barbara Hillary was the first African-American woman to reach the North Pole in in 2007. Five years later Hillary made history again when she stepped foot on the South Pole at age 79, becoming the first African-American woman on rec
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965) Playwright and activist Larraine Hansberry was the first African-American to write a play performed on Broadway and was the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award for best play. Opening on March 11,
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Jane Matilda Bolin (1908 – 2007) was an groundbreaking woman on many fronts in American history. She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School and the first to join the New York City Bar Association. She went on to became the f
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Misty Copeland (born September 1982) broke barriers on stage in 2015 when she became the first African American woman to be named principal dancer at the prestigious American Ballet Theater, the first in the company's 75 year history. #blackhistorymonth #
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Willa B. Brown (1906-1992) is an American legend; she was a lobbyist, aviator, teacher and civil rights activist. Willa was the first African American woman in U.S. history to earn a mechanic license and a commercial pilot's license. She was the first bla
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Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919) was America's first black millionaire, and the first woman of any race in the United States to become a self-made millionaire. She was a entrepreneur, philanthropist and civil rights activist. Walker broke through glass ceili
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Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) was the first black woman to earn a pilot's license. Every flying school that she approached in America refuse to enroll her as a student because she was black and a woman. Bessie wouldn't take no for answer. She learned French
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Myra Adele Logan (1908 to 1977), was a African-American surgeon and the first woman in the world to perform open heart surgery in 1943. She was also and the first African-American woman elected a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She was a pione
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Althea Gibson (1927-2003) was the first African-American tennis player to compete at the U.S. National Championship in 1950, and the first black player to compete at Wimbledon in 1951. Althea Neale Gibson born on August 25, 1927 in silver South Carolina.
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The very first woman firefighter in athe United States was Molly Williams, who was a slave in New York and became a member of Oceanus Engine Company #11 in 1815. She was tough, brave and strong. When a blizzard hit New York City in 1818 and all the male v
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"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations." -Mae Jemison Mae Jemison is an engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. In 1992 she became the first African-American woman in space, flying aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. #shepersisted #blackhist
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In 1949 Dr. Alfreda Johnson Webb was the first African American woman to graduate from veterinary school in the United States. #TheUnitedStateofWomen #StillShePersisted #blackhistorymonth
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In Honor of Marie M. Daly, Ph.D. Dr. Marie Daily was born in 1921 in Queens, New York. This pioneering scientist became the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate degree in chemistry in the United States. #shepersisted #blackhistorymonth #stem #
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"It's better to live one year as a tiger, then 100 years as a sheep." -Madonna #resistance
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"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated." - Rosalind Franklin (contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA) #science #icantkeepquiet
