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Maya Angelou
The celebrated author became the first African-American woman to have a feature-length screenplay produced — 1972’s Georgia Georgia. And in 1993, during the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, Angelou became the first poet to make an an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost (at President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration) with her work, “On the Pulse of Morning.”
Alice Guy-Blaché
The French filmmaker is widely considered the first female director. She also wrote, produced, shot, and acted in her own films (her filmography lists hundreds of credits). She rose through the ranks at engineer and inventor Léon Gaumont’s photography company (starting as a secretary), eventually joining his motion picture studio, the Gaumont Film Company. Guy-Blaché is also one of the first women to shoot a narrative film and own her own studio, The Solax Company.
Dorothy Dandridge
The first African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress (1954’s Carmen Jones), Dandridge was also the first black woman to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
Halle Berry
Former fashion model Halle Berry was the first — and, as of last year, the only — African-American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress (the Lee Daniels-produced Monster’s Ball).
Lydia Maria Child
Juvenile Miscellany was the first monthly periodical for children published in America, founded by activist and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child.
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