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