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Internet Celebrates Black Women With #BlackWomenDidThat After Hillary Clinton Accepts Nomination

Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly, 12:13 PM ET Updated: 2:12 PM ET, http://time.com/4431942/black-...hat-historic-firsts/

U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm announces her entry for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, at the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York on Jan. 25, 1972.

Many recalled Shirley Chisholm, the first black female major party presidential candidate

Social media users celebrated historic firsts reached by black women throughout history on Friday, using the trending hashtag #BlackWomenDidThat to recognize their accomplishments.

As Hillary Clinton became the first woman to accept a major party’s presidential nomination on Thursday, many remembered other women who have also put cracks in that “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” including Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to run for President in a major political party. She was also the first black U.S. congresswoman.

Anthony J.Williams, editor in chief of the Afrikan Black Coalition, started the hashtag “to commemorate black women who impacted your life,” he said on Twitter.

‏@anthoknees

shirley chisholm Retweeted black xtc

Help us come up with a hashtag to commemorate Black women who impacted your life (directly or indirectly) https://twitter.com/mylomu/status/758881633332191234 …

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Goldie Taylor

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Oh, so we gone do this? Alright. #BlackWomenDidThat
8:23 AM - 29 Jul 2016

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‏@Ianakane

Shirley Chisholm, 1972: the first black female major party presidential candidate #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@OmanReagan

The first woman presidential candidate on the ballot nationwide in US was Lenora Fulani in 1988. #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@Karnythia

Dr. M. Jocelyn Elders sixteenth Surgeon General of the United States #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@Phil_Lewis_

Tera Poole became the first Black Valedictorian at the world's first school of dentistry. #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@ValaAfshar

61 years ago, Rosa Park stood up for her rights by sitting down, forever changing America. #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@LeslieMac

#ClaudetteColvin at age 15 was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus - B4 Rosa did #BlackWomenDidThat

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♐Skin of Becky

‏@IKilledBecky

Gwendolyn Brooks is the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@thunder_maker

Dr. Mae Jamison, physician and NASA astronaut, was the first African-American woman in space #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@BrandiJeter

11-year-old lands million dollar account. @BeeSweetLem's Mikaila Ulmer DID that. #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@BrandiJeter

Bessie Coleman was the first female pilot of African American descent. #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@KenyaBell

Whoopi Goldberg broke barriers by becoming a mainstream movie star n all her black NATURAL glory #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@Karnythia

Dr. Alexa Canady First Black woman to become a neurosurgeon #BlackWomenDidThat

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Druggie must be upset. He would rather see black women with food stamps living in Section 8.

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IG: @me.hki @theyh8mehki

@Oprah is the FIRST black female billionaire #BlackWomenDidThat

7:35 AM - 29 Jul 2016

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‏@AshleyKSmalls

The most nominated woman in Grammy history, Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter #BlackWomenDidThat

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‏@JenClarke18

Misty Copeland was the first black woman to be a Principal Dancer at the American Ballet Theater #BlackWomenDidThat

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