Social media users celebrated historic firsts reached by black women throughout history on Friday, using the trending hashtag #BlackWomenDidThat to recognize their accomplishments.
As Hillary Clinton became the first woman to accept a major party’s presidential nomination on Thursday, many remembered other women who have also put cracks in that “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” including Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to run for President in a major political party. She was also the first black U.S. congresswoman.
Anthony J.Williams, editor in chief of the Afrikan Black Coalition, started the hashtag “to commemorate black women who impacted your life,” he said on Twitter (TWTR).
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Shirley Chisholm, 1972: the first black female major party presidential candidate #BlackWomenDidThatpic.twitter.com/DL2xLqK1i4
— hot girl midsommar (@verymimi) July 29, 2016
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Dr. M. Jocelyn Elders sixteenth Surgeon General of the United States #BlackWomenDidThatpic.twitter.com/k6YlCo2iK0
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) July 29, 2016
Tera Poole became the first Black Valedictorian at the world's first school of dentistry. #BlackWomenDidThatpic.twitter.com/7snVlp43rf
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 29, 2016
61 years ago, Rosa Park stood up for her rights by sitting down, forever changing America. #BlackWomenDidThatpic.twitter.com/lqMluJMEQT
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) July 29, 2016
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Dr. Alexa Canady First Black woman to become a neurosurgeon #BlackWomenDidThatpic.twitter.com/QBNkAKUOgw
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) July 29, 2016
@Oprah is the FIRST black female billionaire #BlackWomenDidThatpic.twitter.com/vsfkXqcCBV
— otm (@fxvdi) July 29, 2016
The most nominated woman in Grammy history, Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter #BlackWomenDidThatpic.twitter.com/5IYwmw6bOc
— Ashley K. (@AshleyKSmalls) July 29, 2016
Love, love, love this woman!
— Atticus+2.9million (@AtticusinCanada) July 30, 2016
This article originally appeared on Time.com
