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May 15
May
Civil Rights
Educator
Diane Nash
Illinois
May 21
May
Educator
Harlem Renaissance
Regina Anderson Andrews
Andrews (1901-1993) was a Harlem It Girl, Librarian, Hostess, and Cultural Icon. She helped organize the Civic Club Dinner of 1924 - the purported birthplace of the Harlem Renaissance - and she became the first Black librarian appointed to lead a New York Public Library branch (115th St. Branch, 1938).
Illinois
May 25
May
Educator
Author
Dorothy Porter Wesley
Librarian, Challenged and improved upon the Dewey Decimal system
Virginia
May 28
May
Activist
Civil Rights
Educator
Dr. Betty Shabazz
Georgia
May 31
May
Singer
Educator
Catholic
Shirley Verrett
Verrett (1931-2010) was an operatic mezzo-soprano who established herself as a soprano sfogato, mastering both vocal ranges with extraordinary power and flexibility throughout her celebrated career. She rose to international prominence from the late 1960s through the 1990s, earning particular acclaim for her commanding interpretations of Verdi and Donizetti heroines, along with definitive portrayals of roles like Carmen, Tosca, and Lady Macbeth.
Louisiana
Jun 11
June
Educator
Civil Rights
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
North Carolina
Jul 3
July
Educator
Ruth Simmons
In 2001, Simmons became the first Black woman to lead an Ivy League Institution when she was sworn in as the 18th President of Brown University.
Texas
Jul 4
July
Educator
Athlete
Lucy Diggs Slowe
Slowe's legacy is deeply woven into the fabric of African American history. As one of the nine original founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated at Howard University in 1908, she helped lay the foundation for an organization that would empower generations of Black women. Slowe became the first African American to win a major athletic title when she won the American Tennis Association championship in 1917, and she served as the first Dean of Women at Howard University (the first African American to serve in such a position at any university in the US), dedicating her career to supporting young Black women in higher education.
Virginia
Jul 10
July
Activist
Educator
Mary McLeod Bethune
Referred to as the First Lady of Negro America, Bethune (1875-1955) was an impassioned Educator and founder of Bethune-Cookman College and the The National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
South Carolina
Jul 11
July
Fashion
Educator
Author
Lois Alexander - Lane
Alexander Lane (1916-2007) founded the Harlem Institute of Fashion in 1966 and established the Black Fashion Museum in Harlem, NY in 1979.
Arkansas
Jul 15
July
Banking
Journalism
Civil Rights
Baptist
Educator
Maggie Lena Walker
On July 24, 1903, Maggie L. Walker became the first Black woman to serve as president of a U.S. bank, as well as the first woman founder of a U.S. bank, when she rallied members of the Independent Order of St. Luke to charter and capitalize the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia.
Virginia
Jul 19
July
Author
Educator
Activist
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Louisiana
Jul 24
July
Chemistry
Educator
Alice Ball
Ball (1892 - 1916) was a brilliant chemist who, at 23, discovered the first treatment for Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease), known as the Ball Method.
Washington
Jul 30
July
Law
Educator
Author
Anita Hill
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.
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Aug 7
August
Educator
Harlem Renaissance
Catherine Allen Latimer
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.
Tennessee
Aug 8
August
Law
Educator
Wanda Akin Brown
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Aug 9
August
Educator
Civil Rights
Government
Willa B. Player
Mississippi
Aug 10
August
Activist
Author
Educator
Anna Julia Cooper
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.
North Carolina
Aug 12
August
Art
Educator
Entertainment
Camille Billops
California
Aug 12
August
Model
Educator
Entrepreneur
Ophelia Devore
South Carolina
Aug 17
August
Author
Educator
Activist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Grimke (1837-1914) hailed from a triumvirate of intellectual and abolitionist families: born into the prestigious Forten family, she later married into the equally renowned Grimke family, and shared familial ties with the influential Purvis family. She was an activist, educator, and a diarist whose published works gave rare insight into the life and perspective of a free Black woman in the North, pre-civil war.
Pennsylvania
Sep 3
September
Singer
Educator
Dorothy Maynor
Maynor (1910-1996) was an international concert soprano, the first African American to sing at a US President’s Inauguration (Harry Truman, 1949), and the Founder of the Harlem School of Arts.
Virginia
Sep 4
September
Science
Educator
Dr. Margaret Strickland Collins
Entomologist nicknamed “the termite lady” for her pioneering work in termite biology, behavior, and control methods. Her groundbreaking work revolutionized the pest control industry.
West Virginia
Sep 5
September
Anthropology
Educator
Vivian Osborne Marsh
Clubwoman
Texas
Sep 6
September
Photography
Educator
Mamie Estelle Scurlock
Mamie (1885-1977), was an Educator and Photography studio manager.
Washington D.C.
Sep 7
September
Art
Educator
Jean Blackwell Hutson
Hutson (1914-1998) was an educator, archivist, and curator at the New York Public library - the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Florida
Sep 8
September
Medicine
Educator
Ionia Rollin Whipper
South Carolina
Sep 9
September
Activist
Educator
Harlem Renaissance
Louise Thompson Patterson
Illinois
Sep 12
September
Educator
Mary Jane Patterson
First African American woman to earn a Bachelor Degree. See also, Lucy Stanton.
North Carolina
Sep 17
September
Medicine
Educator
Catholic
Lena Frances Edwards
Board Certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist
Washington D.C.
Sep 19
September
Educator
Civil Rights
Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany
Educator, Author
Virginia
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