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Title: Famous African American Woman


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Famous African American Woman
  • ByChardana Bolding

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Gwendolyn Brooks
  • First African-American poet to win a Pulitzer
    Prize,in

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Johnnetta Cole
  • Became the first woman president of Spelman
    College,in

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Bessie Coleman
  • First African-American stunt pilot to stage a
    public flight,in

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Prudence Crandall
  • She opened a school to educate young ladies of
    color in

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Lorraine Hansberry
  • Her play,Raisin in the sun,was the first drama by
    an African American woman to be staged on
    Broadway,in

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Roberta Harris
  • First African Amercian woman to serve in a
    presidents cabinet,in

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Mahalia Jackson
  • Known as the Queen of Gospel, she performed at
    President Jphn F. Kennedys inauguration in

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Bessie Smith
  • Her first of many blues recordings,Downhearted
    Blues, was made in

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Mary Terrell
  • First president of a new organization, the
    Natinal Association of Colored Women, in

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Alice Walker
  • Famous as the author of The Color Purple,,which
    was published in
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