(CNN) — Here is a look at women in business, education, government and sports who have broken through the glass ceiling and become the first in their respective positions in the United States. 1739 - ...

The first telecast of an American hockey game is transmitted over station W2XBS in New York. The viewing audience watches the New York Rangers battle the Montreal Canadiens at ...

Born two months prematurely in Albany, Western Australia in 1940, Ron Williams was originally given the ... full-blood, half-caste, black American, Wongi and Noongar. Ron did not care for school and ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers to become the only woman to compete for ...

Women’s suffragist, investigative journalist and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells is now immortalized as part of the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program.

A 1910 watercolor portrait of Belle da Costa Greene by Laura Coombs Hills. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the ...

A group of Hillsboro mothers and their children marched for two years to desegregate their community’s schools.

An era of unprecedented creativity and freedom where fashion and music were the defining elements of cultural expression.