Black Women in History

Tennis Player; First black woman to compete at Wimbledon and won Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 and 1958.

• Serena Williams

• Venus Williams

• Athena Gibson

• Marsha P Johnson

The first African American to play at the US Nationals in 1950, and the first black athlete to win the French Open.

• Athena Gibson

• Serena Williams

• Amelia Robinson

• Jane Bolin

Amelia Robinson is...

• First black woman to graduate from Yale Law School

• Founder of the Arkansas State Press

• The US's first Black Woman Judge

• the first Black Woman to run for congress

The first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and the first black woman judge in America.

• Jane Bolin

• Amelia Robinson

• Serena Williams

• Marsha P Johnson

Daisy Bates is... (choose all correct answers)

• The founder of the Arkansas Press (the first newspaper to be completely dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement)

• the organizer of Little Rock Nine

• The first black woman astronaut

• the first Black Woman Neurosurgeon

The third Monday in February is...

• Pancake Day

• Jane Bolin Day

• Athena Gibson Day

• Daisy Bates Day

a South African Grammy-award winning singer (1932-2008)

• Athena Gibson

• Mariam Makeba

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• Mama Cax

Alexa Canady is...

• the first black woman neurosurgeon in the US (1981)

• the first black woman invited to perform at the white house

• the first black woman astronaut to travel to space (1992)

• first African American to win the Pulitzer prize for poetry

This woman also refused to move her seat for a white on a bus, however she was only 15 at the time and was not chosen to be the face of the Civil Rights Movement.

• Marsha P Johnson

• Rosa Parks

• Claudette Colvin

• Marian Anderson

Marsha P Johnson is...

• was the first black woman judge in the US

• founded the Arkansas State Press

• the first black woman astronaut

• a Black Trans activist who was a leader of the stonewall riot