Title: The Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural Center Presents
1The Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural
Center Presents
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Womens History Month
2Hattie Walker WilhoiteRecognition ProgramFor
APSU African American WomenSpring 2012
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Womens History Month
3Womens 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.
4Hattie Walker Wilhoite
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to graduate from APSU
5Dr. Jennifer Capeheart-Meningall
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American Vice President at APSU
6Mary McLeod Bethune
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Founder Bethune-Cookman College
7Sojourner Truth
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Nationally known speaker on human rights for
slaves and women
8Zora Neale Hurston
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Novelist, folklorist and anthropologist
9Rosa Parks
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
10Shirley Chisholm
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman elected to the U.S.
Congress
11Hattie McDaniel
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to receive an Oscar
Award
12Annie Turnbo Malone
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman millionaire
13Maxine Waters
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
14Dr. 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
15Patricia Roberts Harris
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to hold a U.S. Cabinet
position
16Constance Baker Motley
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to serve in the New
York State Senate
17Dorothy Dandridge
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Actress
18Mahalia Jackson
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Gospel Singer
19Alice Walker
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Author, poet and activist
20Toni Morrison
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to win Nobel Prize for
Literature
21Aretha Franklin
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
The Queen of Soul
22Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st Woman elected Head of State in Africa
23Ida 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
24Fannie Lou Hamer
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Co-Founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party
25Biddy Mason
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to own land in
California
26Wilma 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
27Susie 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
28Dr. Susan McKinney Steward
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman doctor in New York
State
29Daisy Bates
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
Civil rights activist and the guide, mentor and
advisor for the Little Rock Nine
30Gwendolyn Brooks
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to win the Pulitzer
Prize
31Vanessa Williams
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American selected as Miss America
32Suzette Charles
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
2nd African American Miss America
33Carrie Saxon Perry
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman elected mayor of
Hartford, Connecticut
34Dr. 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
35Rita 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
36Carol Moseley-Braun
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman Senator to serve for
the state of Illinois
37Teresa 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
38Rosalind 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
40Maggie 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.
42Dr. Alexa Canady
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman neurosurgeon in the
United States
43Jane 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.
44Barbara 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"
45Lorraine Hansberry
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
1st African American woman to write a Broadway
play (A Raisin In The Sun)
46Althea 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).
47Hazel 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.
48Leontine 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)
49APSU Student Leader Honorees 2011
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
50APSU Staff Honorees 2011
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
51APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
52APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
53APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
54APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
55APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
56APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
57APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
58APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women
59APSU Women
The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women