She was the first African American woman in the US congress
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She was the first black woman to go to space.
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Condoleezza Rice was the first African American woman to be Secretary of State.
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.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was the first African-American, first African-American Poet, and first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer for Poetry for her acclaimed collection, Annie Allen.
•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
No African American woman has ever served on the United States Supreme Court. The first woman to be appointed to the Court was Sandra Day O'Connor. The first African American to be appointed to the Court was Thurgood Marshall.
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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.
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the first African American woman vet.
she was the first African American woman in space
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