| CHISHOLM | Shirley -, first Black woman in Congress |
| MAXINE | __ Waters, most senior Black woman in Congress |
| MAE | First black woman in space, ___ Jemison |
| JEMISON | Mae __, first Black woman in space |
| BRIANA | ___ Scurry, first Black woman in the National Soccer Hall of Fame |
| LUSTER | Debut novel by Raven Leilani, about a young Black woman in an interracial, intergenerational relationship (August, 2020) |
| TONI | Who authored the novel Beloved and became, in 1993, the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize? (first name only) |
| CANADY | Alexa, the first black woman neurosurgeon in the U.S. |
| SHIRLEYCHISHOLM | First black woman elected to Congress, 1968 |
| MORRISON | First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| MIA | ___ Love, first Black woman elected to Congress as a Republican |
| SHIRLEY | ___ Chisholm, first Black woman elected to Congress |
| AMOS | Valerie ___ (b.1954), politician and peer, the first black woman to serve in a UK Cabinet (4) |
| COACHMAN | Alice ___, high jumper who in 1948 became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal |
| JULIEDASH | First black woman to direct a feature-length film distributed theatrically in the United States |
| ISABELWILKERSON | "Caste" author who was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism |
| QUICKSAND | First novel of Nella Larsen, the first Black woman to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship |
| NELLALARSEN | The first Black woman to win a Guggenheim fellowship, she explored female sexuality and biracial identity in her debut novel |
| COLEMAN | She was the first Black woman to stage a public flight in America |
| LEE | Rebecca ___ Crumpler (first Black woman to become a medical doctor in the US) |
