African American inventor Anna M. Mangin is issued 
a patent for pastry fork. (1892)

Elaine R. Jones, the first woman director-counsel
of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is born. (1944)

Olympic Gold Medalist Jackie Joyner Kersee is born. (1962)

Miriam Makeba, the Empress of African Song, is born. (1932)

Leontine T. C. Kelly, the first African American woman bishop
of any major demomination, is born. (1920)

World renowned singer Mary Wilson is born. (1944)

Harriet Ann Jacobs, author of 
Incidents of the "Life of a Slave Girl", dies. (1897)

Louise Beavers, a Hollywood character 
actress who starred in films such as
"The Imitation of Life" and "Delightly Dangerous", is born. (1902)

Phyllis Daley is commissioned as the 
first African American US Navy nurse. (1945)

Harriet Tubman who freed hundreds of slaves dies. (1913)

Lorraine Hansberry's "A  Raisan In the Sun" becomes  the first play by an 
African American woman to premire on Broadway (1959)

African American author Virginia Hamilton, 
 America's  most honored children's author, is born. (1936)

Cynthia Tucker, the first African American woman
editor of the editorial pages of 
a major daily publication, is born. (1955)

Willie Hobbs Moore, the first African American woman
to earn a Ph.D. in physics, dies. (1994)

Educator and writer Marion Vera  Cuthbert is born. (1896) 

Rebecca J. Cole, the second African American woman
to recieve a medical degree in the United States, is born. (1846)

Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer dies. (1977)

Hip Hop Artist, Actress and 
Talk Show Host Queen Latifah is born. (1970)

Comedienne Jackie "Moms" Mabley is born. (1894)

Singer/Songwriter Tracy Chapman is born. (1964)

Eva Beatrice Dykes  becomes  the first African American woman
to complete the requirements for a Ph.D. (1921) 

Debi Thomas becomes the first African American 
to win the World Figure Skating Championship. (1986)

Patricia Harris, first African American woman ambassador and
first African American woman cabinet member dies. (1985) 

Dr. Dorothy Irene Height, who served as president of 
the National Council of Negro Women 
for over four decades, is born. (1912)

Anti-Lynching Crusador, African American Suffragist
and NAACP Co-Founder Ida B. Wells dies. (1931)

World acclaimed singer and actress Diana Ross is born. (1944)

Jazz Singer Sarah Vaughn is born. (1924)

Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African American woman
eleted to a state legislature, dies. (1965)

Singer and Actress Pearl Bailey is born. (1918)

Renowned Blues singer Edith Goodall Wilson dies. (1981)

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the first African Amercan concert singer in
United States and the first African Ameircan 
to give a command performance before royalty, dies. (1876). 

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