Black women throughout American history

SOJOURNER TRUTH

1828

Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth

ROSA PARKS

Dec 1, 1955

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and was arrested,

ROSA PARKS

Nov 14, 1960

Ruby Bridges was at age six the first African-American child to go to an all-white Elementary School in Louisiana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges