Lost Voices
U. S. AFRICAN AMERICAN GENDER TIME-LINE
1867 -- First Black Woman Bank President: Maggie Lena Walker.
1872 -- First Woman graduate from a University Law School and First Black Woman Lawyer: Charlotte E. Ray.
1882 -- First Black Woman to practice before the Supreme Court: Violette Johnson.
1920 -- The 19th Ammendment grants Women the right to vote.
1929 -- First Black and First Woman president of West Virginia State Teachers Association: Memphis Tennessee Garrison.
1944 -- Blacks accepted in the Navy's Women's Reserve.
1955 -- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
First Black Singer at the Metropolitan Opera House: Marian Anderson.
1956 -- First Black Woman president of a major broadcasting company: Mary Bell.
1965 -- First Black graduate from University of Alabama: Vivian Malone.
1971 -- First Black Secretary of Commonwealth in Pennsylvania: Delores Tucker.
1973 -- First Black Miss Kentucky: Lyda Lewis.
1974 -- First Black and First Woman to train as a Navy pilot: Jill Brown.
First Black and First Woman Army Chaplain: Alice M. Henderson.
1975 -- U.S. Navy's First Black woman physician: Donna P. Davis.
First Black president of the American Library Association: Clara Jones.
1976 -- First Black named to President Jimmy Carter's cabinet: Patricia Roberts Harris.
1977 -- First Black to win the Miss Universe title: Janelle Penny Commession.
First Black woman to be named Head of Personnel for HUD: Virginia M. Armstrong.
1978 -- Red Book Magazine
selects as top three women legislators, Black
representatives:
Barbara Jordan (TX), Yvonne Burke (CA) and Shirley
Chisholm (N.Y.).
1979 -- First Black Woman Brigadier General of the U. S. Navy: Hazel Johnson.
First Black Woman to win a Rhodes Scholarship: Karen Stevenson.
First Black Woman state trooper in Alabama: Clara Zeigler.
UCLA student, Evelyn Ashford set a new American record in the 100-meter dash.