Hattie McDaniel
The first African American to win an Oscar
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Lubaina Himid
In 2017, 63-year-old Tanzanian-British artist Lubaina Himid became the oldest artist to win the acclaimed Turner Prize, as well as the first woman of African descent.
Mary Seacole
1800s Jamaican nurse and businesswoman
Mary Fields
“Stagecoach Mary” Fields may seem like an unconventional mail carrier by today’s standards, but the gun-toting, hot-tempered, six-foot-tall Mary was exactly the right person to protect her cargo in 1890s Montana.
Darlene Love
Despite—or perhaps because of—her phenomenal talent, singer Darlene Love was held back for years by producer Phil Spector, who relegated her to background singer roles.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The first woman to be elected head of state in modern Africa
Ernestine Shepherd
American bodybuilder
Gesel Mason
After more than a decade of collaborating with African American choreographers on solo pieces created for her as a dancer, Gesel Mason turned that body of work into a digital archive, “No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers”
Annie Lee Cooper
American civil rights activist
Dr Christine Darden
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.