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Mary Ann Shadd Cary

June 22, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

The first black female publisher in North America

She was the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, one of the first black female lawyers in the United States and an advocate for granting women the right to vote.

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