Selma Burke
Selma Burke was an artist best known for her sculpture of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945 which inspired the profile found on a…
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Selma Burke was an artist best known for her sculpture of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945 which inspired the profile found on a…
May Edward Chinn was the first black woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926 and the first black woman to…
Unita Blackwell born in 1933 was the first black woman to become a mayor in Mississippi in 1976.
Ella Hill Hutch was the first black woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.
Mary Kenner invented the sanitary belt which was not patented until thirty years later in 1956 because she was a black woman. She…