Dorothy I Height

• NCNW President  (1957 to 1997)

• Awarded US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994

• Awarded
  Congressional Gold Medal in 2004

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court Nominee

• Nominated by President Biden (2/25/2022) to be first Black woman Supreme Court judge

• Since 2021, Federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit

Augusta Savage
Sculptor

• First Black artist elected to the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors

• Created a 16-foot-high sculpture entitled Lift Every Voice (the inspiration for the Black National Anthem)

Marley Dias

• Founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks

• Within a few months, collected over 9000 books in which black girls are the main characters, not minor or background characters

Cornrows

• Used by slaves to transfer information and create maps to the north

• Curved braids represented the roads 

• Hidden gold and seeds in braids used to help slaves survive after escaping

6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

• An all Black Women's Army Corp 

• Cleared up the backlog of nearly two years' undelivered mail to servicemen; completed in less than 6 months
   

Wangari Maathai 

• Kenyan ecologist who became the first black woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

• Founded the Green Belt Movement, the largest tree-planting campaign in Africa

Harriet Tubman & Combahee River Raid

• Led the Combahee River Raid military operation during the Civil War

• Rescued more than 700 slaves