The ladies who did it first - this week we look at the first black woman to enlist in the Coast Guard and the first published African American female poet.
Olivia Hooker
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46332474?ocid=socialflow_twitter https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/obituaries/olivia-hooker-dead.html https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921 http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/10/olivia-hooker-a-spars-story/
Phillis Wheatley
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/his-excellency-general-washington http://blackartblog.blackartdepot.com/features/african-american-monuments-statues/phillis-wheatley-monument.html
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