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Part Five
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) First African American to publish a book of poetry Jarena Lee (1783-?) First woman preacher in the AME church Elizabeth Freeman (1742-1829) First woman freed under the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) First woman orator Biddy Mason (1818-1891) First African American landowner in Los Angeles Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (1819-1891) First to perform for royalty Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) First to publish a short story Elizabeth Jennings (1830-?) First to challenge a bus system 100 years before Rosa Parks Mary Fields (1832-1914) First woman stagecoach driver for the postal service Josephine Saint Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) First to publish a magazine for African American women Susan King Taylor (1848-1912) First army nurse Ida Wells Barnett (1862-1931) First to establish a black women's suffrage club Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919) First woman millionaire Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) First woman to head a federal agency Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933) First to sing at Carnegie Hall Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) First to write a collection of black folklore Madame Lillian Evanti (1891-1967) First to establish a black opera company Eva Jessye (1895-1992) First choral director for the original "Porgy and Bess" Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) First woman international pilot Edith Sampson (1901-1979) First woman elected a judge Blanche Calloway (1902-1973) First woman to lead an all-male band Willa Brown-Chappell (1906-1992) First woman commercial pilot Victoria Regina Spivey (1906-1976) First woman to own a recording company Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985) First woman Cabinet member Shirley Chisholm (1924 -) First woman member of Congress Althea Gibson (1927 -) First woman to win a major tennis title Maya Angelou (1928 -) First woman to produce a screenplay Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) First woman to write a Broadway play Alice Walker (1944 -) First African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |