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#DYK In 1957 Althea Gibson became the first African American to win a Wimbledon title. She was also the first African American to play at the U.S. Nationals when in 1950 the tournament was desegregated. In 1956 Gibson became the first black athlete to win the French Open. In 1957 and 1958 Gibson won Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals the first African American to win either. Gibson retired after winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1958 having earned 56 titles during that decade alone. (Phot...
Five African American Women Who Changed America
In 1957 Althea Gibson became the first African American to win a Wimbledon title #womenshistory#BlackHistoryMonth
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"I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow this concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged and the planned have the right to live". - Dr. Mildred Jefferson (1926-2010) The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School
Shirley Chisholm paved the way for Hillary Clinton to become the first woman to win a major party nomination!
Alice Paul, a suffragist. Woodrow Wilson and his cronies tried to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized.
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (February 11, 1916 – December 22, 2000), was a U.S. lawyer, activist, civil rights advocate, and feminist.
Mary Mahoney, born1845, was the first African-American woman to be professionally trained as a nurse in 1879.
Five African American Women Who Changed America
Gloria Richardson was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth
Women students demonstrate a science experiment at Spiceland Academy in Indiana, circa 1900. #women #STEM #chemistry #scientists #history #herstory #steminist
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Vogue - April 1971 - Talitha Getty in Berber Wedding Dress