It was on 8 September 1949 when Annie E. Graham joined the Corps.
•1918 --Pvt. Opha Mae Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserve •1943 --Colonel Ruth Cheney Streeter first Director of Women Marine Reservists •1943 --Captain Anne Lentz, first commissioned officer •1943 --Private Lucille McClarren first enlisted woman[1]
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Opha Mae Johnson is officially credited as the first woman Marine.
Opha Mae Johnson was the first Woman Marine in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Linda L. Baker was the first black woman accountant.
Madam CJ Walker was the first black woman to invent the perm for women
Lucy Brewer was the first woman to be a marine in 1812.
Carol A. Mutter in 1994.
In 1837, James McCune Smith was the first African American to earn a medical degree (in Scotland). In 1839, Samuel Ford McGill of Monrovia, Liberia, graduated from Dartmouth Medical School.
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Officially, Opha Mae Johnson is credited as the first woman Marine. Johnson enlisted for service on August 13, 1918; during that year some 300 women first entered the Marine Corps to take over stateside clerical duties from battle-ready Marines who were needed overseas.
Samuel Nicholas was the First Commandant of the Marine Corps. He along with Robert Mullen created the Marine Corps