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Mary Fields, also known as Stagecoach Mary, (born 1832?, Hickman county, Tennessee, U.S.—died December 5, 1914, Cascade county, Montana), American pioneer who was the first African Americanwoman to become a U.S. postal service star (contract) route mail carrier.

Fields was born into slavery. Little is known of her early life or what she did in the years immediately following the end of the Civil War and her emancipation. In the late 1870s, she became a housekeeper at the Ursuline Convent in Toledo, Ohio, where she had a close relationship with Mother Amadeus. Various accounts posit that Mother Amadeus was a member of a family that owned Fields when she was a child and that this early acquaintanceship accounted both for their close relationship and for Fields’s presence at the convent. It is known that Fields was about 6 feet (1.8 metres) tall and weighed about 200 pounds (91 kg) and was capable of doing what was then regarded as men’s work as well as more-standard housekeeping chores. When Mother Amadeus was sent to St. Peter’s Mission outside Cascade, Montana, Fields initially remained in Toledo, but about 1885 Mother Amadeus sent for her (most accounts say that Mother Amadeus was near death with pneumonia and asked for Mary to take care of her), and Fields relocated to Montana.

Fields worked for the mission, doing maintenance and repair work as well as gardening and laundry, and she was also responsible for ferrying in supplies from nearby towns to the mission. However, despite her devotion to the nuns, she drank in saloons with men and was reputed to have a quick temper. She may have gotten into a gunfight with a man who is variously reported to have objected to taking orders from her or to her wages being higher than his. In any case, the bishop of the Montana diocese ordered the convent to dismiss Fields. She was said to have opened one or more eateries in Cascade, but these enterprises failed, possibly because of her alleged generosity in allowing those unable to pay to eat for free.

In 1895 Fields acquired the postal service contract for mail between Cascade and St. Peter’s Mission. Her dedication and reliability on this difficult and often dangerous route earned her the sobriquetStagecoach Mary. She worked for the postal service for eight years and retired in the early 20th century. Thereafter, she operated a laundry service and also reportedly babysat children. She continued to drink in saloons, and she became a beloved figure in Cascade. The actor Gary Cooper met Fields when he was a child, and an account of his memories of her appeared in Ebony magazine (1959).
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Dorothy Dandridge was an American film actress, singer and dancer who was the first black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress.
 
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Madam CJ Walker, African American entrepreneur 1867-1919

Born to parents who were freed slaves. Became orphaned at 7 when her father died a year after her mother passed. Later widowed at 20 with a 2 year old daughter before remarrying.

Went from making a dollar a day as a laundress to becoming a sales agent for black women's cosmetics/hair care products, to branching off and creating her own line/company of products and selling/marketing them across the U.S. with her husband.

At the height of her business she trained/employed thousands of other women and taught them sales skills, budgeting, building their own business and financial independence and put them in high positions in her business.

As a philanthropist she donated over present day equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes and facilities that helped benefit the lives of African Americans and encouraged others in power position to do the same.

One of the first female self made millionaires in America her estate was worth the equivalent of $8 million today when she died at the age of 51.



“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. . . . I have built my own factory on my own ground.”
– Madam C. J. Walker, 1912

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I was gonna do dorothy dandridge, is it too late to participate? I been in and out of here but hadn't had a chance to change my avi pic

*so I just did my grandmother. Talented woman, Beautiful singing voice! and the hardest working woman I've ever known. Loved this woman, and still do RIP
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MzLyricist said:
I was gonna do dorothy dandridge, is it too late to participate? I been in and out of here but hadn't had a chance to change my avi pic

*so I just did my grandmother. Talented woman, Beautiful singing voice! and the hardest working woman I've ever known. Loved this woman, and still do RIP
❤️.
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So you gonna steal my whole little thing ay.
 
Dammit I missed it. Damn there gotten use to having this nigga's avi...I thought it was my own. Lol
 
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