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Euphemia Lofton Haynes: The first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics.

Meserette KentakeSeptember 11, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 11, 2015April 15, 20180

Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics. Euphemia Lofton...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: The most famous woman poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Meserette KentakeSeptember 10, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 10, 2015April 15, 20180

Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the earliest African-American female poets to gain widespread recognition. As part of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Johnson...

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Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans

Meserette KentakeSeptember 10, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 10, 2015April 15, 20180

Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades Marie Laveau held New Orleans spellbound, as her...

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Ruby Bridges: The six year old heroine

Meserette KentakeSeptember 8, 2015August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 8, 2015August 16, 20200

[dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]uby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all-whyte public elementary school in the American South. Bridges was six years old and...

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Honourable Mrs. Louise Bennett-Coverley ‘Miss Lou’ – Mother of Jamaican culture

Meserette KentakeSeptember 7, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 7, 2015April 15, 20180

Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in...

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Claudette Colvin: Arrested nine months before Rosa Parks

Meserette KentakeSeptember 5, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 5, 2015April 15, 20181

Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, she was the...

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Josephine Silone Yates: The first Black woman to hold a full professorship

Meserette KentakeSeptember 3, 2015August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeSeptember 3, 2015August 16, 20200

Josephine Silone Yates was an African American teacher, journalist and clubwoman, who was the first African American certified to teach in the public schools of...

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Althea Gibson: Queen of Tennis

Meserette KentakeAugust 25, 2015August 23, 2020

by Meserette KentakeAugust 25, 2015August 23, 20201

“I Always Wanted to Be Somebody.” Althea Gibson was the first African American tennis player to win a Grand Slam title (the French Open). In...

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The Eliza Winston Case

Meserette KentakeAugust 21, 2015April 21, 2018

by Meserette KentakeAugust 21, 2015April 21, 20181

On August 21, 1860, enslaved African American Eliza Winston was freed from her Mississippi enslaver in a Minneapolis court. After being granted legal freedom, however,...

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Mary Ellen Pleasant : The Mother of California’s early civil rights movement

Meserette KentakeAugust 19, 2015August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeAugust 19, 2015August 16, 20201

[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist movement. She worked on the Underground Railroad...

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