Women
5 facts
January 26, 1892
Bessie Coleman Born
Pioneer aviator Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license, was born.
November 26, 1883
Sojourner Truth Dies
Sojourner Truth, legendary abolitionist and women's rights activist, died in Battle Creek, Michigan.
October 3, 1904
Mary McLeod Bethune Founds Bethune-Cookman College
Mary McLeod Bethune established a school for Black girls that became Bethune-Cookman College.
January 23, 1904
Mary McLeod Bethune Founds School
Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls.
c. 1686
Queen Nanny of the Maroons Born
Queen Nanny, the legendary Ashanti warrior-leader of the Jamaican Maroons, was born in what is now Ghana. She is Jamaica's only female National Hero.