This "parade" of 10,000 on 5th Avenue was one of the first major demonstrations by the African American community. It was organized by the NAACP to address violence and discrimination and most acutely, it was a response to the East St. Louis riots of 1917.

Attorney, educator, and author, Hill (1956) is most well known for her public testimony during the 1991 Senate confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Hill, who had worked under Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), accused him of sexual harassment.

Lacks (1920-1951) is the source of the HeLa "immortal" cell line, one of the most important human cell lines in the history of medical research. Lacks's cells, taken without her knowledge or consent, transformed the landscape of modern medicine, while Lacks herself remained long deprived of recognition and recompense.

Sarah Louise Keys Evans' refusal to give up her bus seat led to a landmark Interstate Commerce Commission ruling that banned segregation in interstate travel. In 1952, Evans, a Women's Army Corps member on leave from Fort Dix dressed in full military uniform, boarded a Carolina Trailways bus in Trenton, New Jersey heading home to Washington, N.C. Around midnight in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, a new driver took over. The new driver went down the aisle to check tickets and ordered her to give up her seat to a white Marine, despite the 1946 Morgan v. Virginia Supreme Court ruling that banned segregation in interstate travel. When Evans refused, the new driver had all of the passengers except Evans depart the bus and move to a different bus.

Cartoonist whose strips and panels infused fashion and refinement with social and political elements.

Mayor of D.C.

NASA Astronaut, Electrical Engineer, and the third black woman to travel into Space.

 Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson was born on August 5, 1946, in Washington, D.C. She earned both her B.S. in Physics (1968) and her Ph.D. in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics (1973) from MIT, becoming the first Black woman to receive a doctorate from the institution. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. In 1995, President Bill Clinton appointed her as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where she served until 1999. She was the first woman and the first African American to hold that position.

Nurse and Memoirist

On August 7, 1920 the New York Age published a story about four Black women who had been accepted by the New York Public Library for training. Catherine Latimer was one of the four. She became New York Public Library's first Black librarian.

Suffragist

Owner of Rose Meta House of Beauty in Sugar Hill & A founder of NY's only black owned commercial bank, the Freedom National Bank.

The Voice!

Modernly, Cooper has been referred to as the Mother of Black Feminism after her book A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South sparked a new era of Black feminist thought, challenging the prevailing narratives of race, gender, and class.

Breed (1974) was the first Black woman elected Mayor of San Francisco, California.

"It seems I was born different. At least, I always thought I was."

Elders (1933) was the 15th Surgeon General of the United States, a Pediatrician, and Public Health Administrator.

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, called "Bricktop" for her fiery red hair, led an extraordinary life and was known by many names including The Queen of Paris Nightclubs.