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Title: The Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural Center Presents


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The Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural
Center Presents
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Womens History Month
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Hattie Walker WilhoiteRecognition ProgramFor
APSU African American WomenSpring 2012
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Womens History Month
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Womens History Month
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Women's History Month highlights the historical
and contemporary contributions which women have
made, and are currently making, to society. March
has been designated as the month to celebrate
those contributions.
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Hattie Walker Wilhoite
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to graduate from APSU
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Dr. Jennifer Capeheart-Meningall
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American Vice President at APSU
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Mary McLeod Bethune
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Founder Bethune-Cookman College
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Sojourner Truth
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Nationally known speaker on human rights for
slaves and women
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Zora Neale Hurston
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Novelist, folklorist and anthropologist
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Rosa Parks
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
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Shirley Chisholm
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman elected to the U.S.
Congress
11
Hattie McDaniel
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to receive an Oscar
Award
12
Annie Turnbo Malone
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman millionaire
13
Maxine Waters
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
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Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to receive a Medical
Doctor degree in the United States
15
Patricia Roberts Harris
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to hold a U.S. Cabinet
position
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Constance Baker Motley
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to serve in the New
York State Senate
17
Dorothy Dandridge
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Mahalia Jackson
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Gospel Singer
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Alice Walker
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Author, poet and activist
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Toni Morrison
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to win Nobel Prize for
Literature
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Aretha Franklin
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
The Queen of Soul
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st Woman elected Head of State in Africa
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Ida B. Wells Barnett
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Educator, and Co-founder of National Association
For the Advancement of Colored People
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Fannie Lou Hamer
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Co-Founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party
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Biddy Mason
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to own land in
California
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Wilma Rudolph
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to win 3 gold medals
in track and field in a single Olympic Games
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Susie King Taylor
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to teach openly in a
school for former slaves in Georgia
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Dr. Susan McKinney Steward
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman doctor in New York
State
29
Daisy Bates
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Civil rights activist and the guide, mentor and
advisor for the Little Rock Nine
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Gwendolyn Brooks
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to win the Pulitzer
Prize
31
Vanessa Williams
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American selected as Miss America
32
Suzette Charles
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
2nd African American Miss America
33
Carrie Saxon Perry
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman elected mayor of
Hartford, Connecticut
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Dr. Eliza Ann Grier
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman licensed to practice
medicine in the state of Georgia
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Rita Dove
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to hold the title of
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
36
Carol Moseley-Braun
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman Senator to serve for
the state of Illinois
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Teresa Deloach-Reed
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to serve as the Fire
Chief for the Oakland, California Fire
Department
38
Rosalind G. Brewer
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to lead a business
unit of Wal-Mart
39
 Mary Edmonia Lewis
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st successful African American sculptor
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Maggie Lena Walker
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American  woman in the United States
to become president of St. Luke Penny Savings
Bank
41
Dr. Regina Benjamin
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman, and the youngest
person, to be elected to the American Medical
Association's board of trustees.
42
Dr. Alexa Canady
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman neurosurgeon in the
United States
43
Jane Bolin
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to become a judge in
the United States. She was also the first African
American woman to receive a law degree from Yale
University.
44
Barbara Brandon
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
The only African American woman cartoonist to be
nationally syndicated. Brandons syndicated
comics were called "Where I'm Coming From"
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Lorraine Hansberry
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to write a Broadway
play (A Raisin In The Sun)
46
Althea Gibson
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to win the U.S. Tennis
Association Championship (1957) and the Wimbledon
singles title (1957).
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Hazel Johnson
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman General was appointed
Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Sept. 1,
1979.
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Leontine T. C. Kelly
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman Bishop of a major U.S.
denomination (United Methodist Church)
49
APSU Student Leader Honorees 2011
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
50
APSU Staff Honorees 2011
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
51
APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
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