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Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1983. Her Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra.
American Woman was first performed by The Guess Who, and then redone first by Krokus and then by Lenny Kravitz.
American Woman was by Guess Who
The Guess Who, in 1970, with the song "American Woman."
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was the first American woman to write a symphony.
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The author of the first published book of poems by an American was Phillis Wheatley.
Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1983. Her Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra.
Condoleezza Rice was the first African American woman to be Secretary of State.
American Woman was first performed by The Guess Who, and then redone first by Krokus and then by Lenny Kravitz.
The first American Woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics was Winifred Edgerton Merrill
•First African-American woman circuit court judge•representative of the State Department during the Cold War•First African-American woman to receive an LL.M.•First African-American woman to be an official American representative to the United Nations
She was the first African American woman on the board of Girl Scouts of America. She was the first African American woman to become a full professor at New York University. She was also the first African American woman to be on the US Department of Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.
No African American woman has ever walked on the moon. In fact no woman has ever walked on the moon.
Roberta Bondar was the First North American woman to pilot a spacecraft
The first American lady to travel in space was Sally Ride.