Touria Chaoui
Touria Chaoui was Morocco’s first female pilot.
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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Zelia N. Breaux
Zelia N. Breaux was an American music teacher and musician who played the trumpet, violin and piano who organized the first music department at Oklahoma’s Langston University, as well as the school’s first orchestra.
Lula Parrish
Lula Parrish risked her job and her life by marching for civil rights with more than 100 other African-American teachers in the Selma Teachers March on January 22 1965.
Adah Thoms
Adah Belle Samuels Thoms was an African-American nurse who co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and served as president from 1916 to 1923.
Safi Faye
Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist who has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal. She was the first woman from sub-Saharan Africa to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat (1975).
Myra Davis Hemmings
Delta Sigma Theta, a service sorority for black women, was founded at Howard University in Washington, DC in 1912, with Myra Davis Hemmings of San Antonio elected as its first president.
Queen Labotsibeni Mdluli
Nicknamed Gwamile for her strength of character, Labotsibeni was Swaziland’s queen mother from 1894 to 1899 and then regent from 1899 to 1921.
Pat Parker
Pat Parker was an American poet and activist who drew from her experiences as an African-American lesbian feminist. Her poetry spoke to her difficult childhood growing up in poverty, coping with sexual assault, and the murder of her sister.
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected the 60th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.