Name a successful Woman of Color

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215. Jane Cooke Wright, MD

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/health/jane-c-wright-pioneering-oncologist-dies-at-93.html

Except for Jane Cooke Wright, almost all the names that came to mind are in entertainment (Tina Turner, Diana Ross, and of course Oprah, and many others already named above) or members of congress and activists (Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Sheila Jackson Lee, Carol Moseley Braun, Barbara Lee, Corrine Brown, Carrie Meek, Angela Davis, my new Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and, may they rest in peace, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Stephanie Tubbs Jones... there are others in last few congresses whose names escape me) .

I'm embarrassed that I can't name more women of color in business, or other fields, except Sheila Johnson, but perhaps she counts as entertainment too?

During the effort to impeach Bush, I had the pleasure of meeting (briefly) Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Barbara Lee, and Cynthia McKinney. With Cynthia McKinney when she spoke at the National Election Reform Conference in Nashville back in 2005:
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