Educate Yourself: 15 Black Women In History You Probably Don’t Know

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Charlotta Bass

…BELIEVED to be the first black woman to own and operate a newspaper (California Eagle) in 1912 until 1951, and the first black woman to be nominated for vice president by the Progressive Party in 1952.

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