1919-Soror Bernice Copeland Lindsay - First black woman to graduate from the School of Journalism at The Ohio State University.

1921-Soror Sadie T. M. Alexander - First black woman to receive Ph.D. in economics in America . First black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. First black woman admitted to the Pennsylvania bar

1923-Soror Anna Johnson Julian - First Black student ever named to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Pennsylvania . First Black woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in sociology.

1930-Soror Elsie Austin - First Black woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

1944-Soror Vivian Osborne Marsh - Only Black in the U.S. to ever christen a navy cargo ship.

1945-Soror Betty P. Murray - First Black woman war correspondent.

1946-Soror Jean Murrell Capers Esq. - First Black woman to serve as Asst. County Prosecutor in Cuyahoga County ( Cleveland , OH ).

1946-Soror Emma C. Clement - First Black woman to be named American Mother of the Year.

1946-Soror Beverly Greene - First Black woman to receive a degree in architectural science frome the University of Illinois .

1948-Soror Edith Irby Jones - First Black woman admitted to a southern white university and first Black student admitted to a southern white medical school when she entered the University of Arkansas medical school.

1954-Soror Patricia R. Harris - First Black woman to be named U.S. Ambassador to a foreign nation.

1959-Soror Juanita Kidd Stout - First Black elected to a judgeship in the Philadelphia Municipal Court.

1964-Soror Frankie Muse Freeman - First woman member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

1965-Soror Joycelyn Elders - First Black Resident Pediatrician at the University of Arkansas Medical Center .

1966-Soror Leontyne Price - Became the only soprano to have opened a season in both old and new opera houses.

1972-Soror Barbara Jordan - First Black person elected to the U.S. Congress from Texas since Reconstruction.

1974-Soror Ruth Bates Harris - First woman appointed Deputy Asst. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

1977-Soror Queen D. Fowler - First Black woman school superintendent in State of Missouri .

1979-Soror Gwendolyn Boyd - First black woman to graduate from Yale university School of Engineering.

1979-Soror Rev. Dr. Pauli Murrary - First Black woman Episcopal priest in the U.S. Fist Black Attorney General in the State of California . Only woman in her law school class at Howard.

1982-Soror Sheila W. Clark - First Black woman to be admitted into partnership in a Big eight accounting firm.

1983-Soror Constance Clayton - First Black woman superintendent of the Philadelphia Public School System.

1985-Soror Ethel L. Payne - First Black woman journalist to cover international affairs.

1985-Soror Shirley A. Jackson - First Black woman to earn a doctorate in physics at MIT.

1986-Soror Edith W. Ming - First Black world president of the World Federation of Methodist Women.

1987-Soror Gloria R. Scott - First Black woman to serve as president of the Girl Scouts of America.

1988-Soror Juanita Kidd Stout - Highest ranking Black woman jurist on the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court.

1988-Soror Niara Sudarkasa - First Black to be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Fort Hare in South Africa .

1992-Soror Carrie Meek - First black woman elected to the U.S. House of representatives from the state of Florida .

1993-Soror Elaine Jones - First woman named as Director and General Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

1993-Soror Charlayne Hunter-Gault - First Black commencement speaker at the University of Georgia .

1994-Soror Carol Moseley-Braun - First Black woman elected to the United States Senate. First Black and First woman to hold county-wide office in Cook County , Illinois prior to her election to higher office.