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HBCU History is Women’s History: 12 History-Makers Who Attended HBCUs


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Audrey Forbes Manley, M.D., M.P.H., C'55 -- In 1988, Dr. Manley became the first Black woman to achieve the rank of As- sistant Surgeon General. In 1997, Manley became the first alumna president of Spelman College.


Azie Taylor Morton (Febru- ary 1, 1936 – December 7, 2003) served as Treasurer of the United States during the Carter adminis- tration from September 12, 1977 to January 20, 1981. She remains the only African American to hold that office. Her signature was printed on US currency during her tenure, an honor that she shared with four African-Amer- ican men. She graduated from Huston-Tillotson College in Aus- tin.


Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning author. Some of her works include Beloved and Song of Solomon. She graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a Bachelor’s degree in English.


Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activ- ist. She wrote the novel Te Col- or Purple (1982), for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulit- zer Prize for Fiction She coined the term "womanist" to mean "A black feminist or feminist of col- or" in 1983. She attended Spelman College before transferring.


Barbara Jordan former U.S. House Representative, civil rights activist, and graduate of Texas Southern University.


Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is an Afri- can-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights. She attended West Virginia State University


Marian Wright Edelman is a writer, lawyer, and civil rights ac- tivist. She is probably best known for her legal advocacy work for African-Americans during the Civil Rights Movement era and aſter. She was the first woman in Mississippi to pass the bar exam. She was a lawyer for the NAACP and has written many books on the issue of racial inequality in the United States. She attended Spel- man College.


Te tennis star Althea Gibson was a graduate of Florida A & M University. She was the first Black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African Ameri- can to win a Grand Slam title.


Dr. Evelynn Hammonds earned her degree in physics from Spelman in 1976. She eventually went on to become a Harvard College Dean. Her writing on sci- ence and race is broadly cited in academic circles. She has earned degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, and Harvard.


Nikki Giovanni is a world-re- nowned poet, writer, activist, and educator who attended Fisk Uni- versity. She remains a passionate civil rights activist and is a power- ful voice in the Black community, specifically, and beyond.


Janet Harmon Bragg, one of the first female African Ameri- can aviators, graduate of Spelman College.


Civil & women's rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, graduate of Barber-Scotia College and president of Bethune-Cook- man College from 1904-42.


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