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In Los Angeles, the Woman's Day Nursery Association was formed to provide care for African American children whose mothers worked outside the home.
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Charlotte Ray died. She was the first African American woman lawyer in the United States and the first woman admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia.
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The 19th amendment grants women the right to vote.
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Civilian Conservation Corp employed more than 250,000 African American women and men.
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Women branches are formed in the military.
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Rosa Parks takes a stand against segregation and encourages women of both white and black races to join the fight.
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National Organization of Women is founded.
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Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman elceted into Congress.
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Mary Bush Wilson becomes first African American woman board chair of the NAACP (the first chair, Mary White Ovington, was a white woman)
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Leontine T. C. Kelly became the first woman bishop of any major American religious denomination, the United Methodist Church
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Oprah Winfrey becomes first woman to own an produce her own syndicated television show.
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Hillary Clinton becomes first former first lady elected Senator
