Jeanette Rankin was elected by the state of Montana and was the first woman elected to Congress.
Mary McLeod Bethune was the first African American woman to head a federal agency
Kalpana Chowla. She was, not only the first American-Indian in space, but the first woman in space as well.
Shirley Anita Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968.
Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor for George W. Bush was of Chinese descent and is the first of Asian ancestry.
Although Camus was the first African born winner he did not win the award as an African. He was considered French. The first African born, African winner was Wole Soyinka who was an African writer from Nigeria who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, and was the first African who ever won the award. He wrote an autobiography called, "The Man Died" in 1972.
In 1983, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her acclaimed novel, The Color Purple.
In 1983, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her acclaimed novel, The Color Purple.
The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature was Gwendolyn Brooks. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her book of poetry titled "Annie Allen." Brooks was a pioneering poet who explored the African American experience in her work.
Toni Morrison, was the first African American woman to win a nobel prize in literature in 1993
yes, she was the first African American woman to ever receive the prize for a fiction novel
In 1983, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her acclaimed novel, The Color Purple.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was the first African-American, first African-American Poet, and first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer for Poetry for her acclaimed collection, Annie Allen.
The Fierst Women Was Jannet Elizabeth Blackwell
The Nobel prize for economics has never been awarded to a woman
Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1983. Her Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra.
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry was Marie Curie in 1911 for her work on radioactivity.