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Charity Edna Adams Earley was the first African American woman to be an officer in the Woman's Army Air Corps and was the commanding officer of the first battalion of African American women to serve overseas during WWII.
Condoleezza Rice was the first African American woman to be Secretary of State.
roberta harris
Carol Moseley Braun
Sonia Sotomayor
Harris-Banks
Yes, a woman can serve Communion.
Susan Travers of Britain.
she was the first African-American woman to serve in the Michigan Senate in 1952.
8 US Military Nurses were killed in Vietnam. One from a communist rocket which struck her medical facility; and Seven were killed in accidents (one jeep, one helicopter, five during Operation Babylift, when a C-5 Galaxy Transport plane crashed on take off).
Alexis M. Herman
Clara Barton. She founded the American Red Cross and ran military hospitals for the wounded.