First Black woman
president of the Washington Press Club, Betty Ann Williams, 1983
First Black female to be
enshrined in the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Lucille Bluford, editor, Kansas
City Call, 1977
First Black woman to edit
a major daily newspaper, Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Constitution, 1990
- First Black female editor of the daily Oakland
Tribune, Howard University alumna Pearl Stewart (Afro-American Studies major), 1992
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