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This is a timeline of African-American women's history.

18th century

 * 1773
 * First known African-American woman to publish a book: Phillis Wheatley (Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral)

1830s

 * 1832
 * Oberlin College opens: the first college in the United States to regularly admit African-American and female students.


 * 1833
 * Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society founded.
 * Prudence Crandall creates an all-girl's school and what is widely regarded as the first integrated classroom in the United States.


 * 1837
 * The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women is held on May 9.

1850s

 * 1851
 * Sojourner Truth gives her speech, Ain't I A Woman, at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 29.


 * 1858
 * First African-American female college professor: Sarah Jane Woodson Early, Wilberforce College

1860s

 * 1862
 * First African-American woman to earn a B.A.: Mary Jane Patterson, Oberlin College


 * 1866
 * First African-American woman enlistee in the U.S. Army: Cathay Williams


 * 1869
 * First African-American woman school principal: Fanny Jackson Coppin (Institute for Colored Youth)

1870s

 * 1879
 * First African American to graduate from a formal nursing school: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Boston, Massachusetts

1880s

 * 1881
 * First African American whose signature appeared on U.S. paper currency: Blanche K. Bruce, Registrar of the Treasury.


 * 1883
 * First known African-American woman to graduate from one of the Seven Sisters college: Hortense Parker (Mount Holyoke College)


 * 1885
 * First African-American woman to hold a patent: Sarah E. Goode, for the cabinet bed, Chicago, Illinois

1890s

 * 1892
 * First African American to sing at Carnegie Hall: Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones


 * 1895
 * First African-American woman to work for the United States Postal Service: Mary Fields