The first American Woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics was Winifred Edgerton Merrill
the first American woman to earn a degree in dentistry
Madam C.J. Walker was the first woman ever black or white to earn a million dollars p.s. she was An African American Tati
She was the first black woman in America to earn a PhD in Chemistry.
Dr. James McCune Smith
Alfred Oscar Coffin was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in a field of the biological sciences.
While most people think of Amelia Earhart, there were actually other female pilots before her. The first woman that we know about to earn a pilot's license was Harriet Quimby, back in 1911. And the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license was Bessie Coleman, in 1922.
Nellie Zabel Willhite was the first woman from South Dakota to earn a pilot's license. She was also the first deaf woman to earn a license.
She was the first american to win gold in the long jump,and first woman to earn over 7,000 points at the Grueling seven-event heptation
elizebeth blackwell was the first black woman to earn her medical degree
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman doctor to earn a degree in Geneva Medical College.
Bessie Coleman was able to fly even though she was an African American because she taught herself French and then moved to France to earn her license at Caudron Brother's School of Aviation. She was the first African American woman who staged a public flight in America.
The first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics was Euphemia Lofton Haynes. She received her doctorate from Catholic University in 1943. She was a teacher in the Washington, D.C. school district for forty-seven years and became the first woman to chair the school board there.