Black History Month: Honoring Lela Thompson
Lela Thompson was the first black woman to graduate from Wilmington College, which is now the University of North Carolina ...
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Barbara Brown Simmons: The history of the first Black woman to graduate from UNM Law
Barbara Brown Simmons was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of New Mexico School of Law and the first ...
First Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College honored with residence hall
Edith Renfrow-Smith is the school's oldest living and first Black woman to graduate. A total of 110 Grinnell College students will both live and learn at Renfrow hall once it officially opens.
She was one of the only Black women in her engineering program. Now, this MIT grad is using dance to introduce a new generation to STEM
Yamilée Toussaint has always been passionate about two seemingly unrelated things: dancing and mathematics. Growing up on ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, The First Black Woman To Serve In The Desegregated U.S. Army Nurse Corps, Dies
The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps ... The history-maker aspired to become a nurse after graduating from Amityville Memorial High School in 1939. She started her career ...