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

• 1773

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

• 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.^[1]

• 1837

The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women is held on May 9.^[2]

• 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

• 1862

First African-American woman to earn a B.A.: Mary Jane Patterson, Oberlin College^[3]

• 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)

• 1879

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

• 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

• 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