Hedgeman urged the male members of the march's planning committee to have a woman speaker, but they initially refused.

Important studies like Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa and Black Americans and the Evangelization of ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

Larson also was the first African American woman to serve as drill master for ... the Rosa Parks Humanitarian Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California for ...