The former cotton picker and beauty technician now was the only licensed black woman pilot in the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

Samuel Clifton said she was the first black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of Montgomery,Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

In two thousand seven, she became the first black woman to receive the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The Lady in Black raised her head suddenly and quickly looked into the woman's face.

VOA: special.2010.05.15