Jane Bolin became the nation's first Black woman judge in 1939.
Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first African-American female White House correspondent.
Wangari Maathai became the first Black woman to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy in July 1944, was arrested after she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Virginia.
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African-American woman physician in the United States.
Eunice Hunton Carter was the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham University Law School,
Alice Coachman, the first Black woman from any country to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
