Just after midnight (July 29), Twitter users @anthoknees and @Bitterblue55 came together to create the #BlackWomenDidThat hashtag to “commemorate Black women who impacted your life.”
#ThankBlackWomenFor #BlackWomenDidThat #BlackWomenSlayed I hope those aren’t terrible https://t.co/cxFVZXKelU
— T’ChNigga Don’tShoot (@Bitterblue55) July 29, 2016
From the enlightening to the celebratory to the hilarious (bye, trolls!), here are some of our favorite tweets of the day:
When you wake up and see #BlackWomenDidThat is trending: pic.twitter.com/V9dKCgm9ZH
— The Movement (@TheMovement) July 29, 2016
Oh, so we gone do this? Alright. #BlackWomenDidThat pic.twitter.com/6ViLQBxrwF
— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) July 29, 2016
#BlackWomenDidThat cracked that glass ceiling that just shattered #ShirleyChisholm pic.twitter.com/j1poFbzdPk
— #TroilusCresibo (@LeslieMac) July 29, 2016
Dr. Angela Davis taught me about freedom & liberation, white supremacy inequality. #BlackWomenDidThat pic.twitter.com/zPTpEgRpdE
— Iola C. Williams (@iamiola) July 29, 2016
#BlackWomenDidThat summed throughout history pic.twitter.com/7EBNWOLzLv
— YJ (@yungjenz) July 29, 2016
Roxane Gay is the first Black female writer for Marvel #BlackWomenDidThat https://t.co/1a3mjvd2yC
— Black Youth Project (@BlackYouthProj) July 29, 2016
Stagecoach Mary "Freest soul ever to draw breath or a .38" #BlackWomenDidThat pic.twitter.com/jDLtyrAtgH
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) July 29, 2016
Kendra Harrison after she broke a 28-year-old world record in the 100meter hurdles #FastestAlive #BlackWomenDidThat pic.twitter.com/8aq1IIHsar
— Sensei Aishitemasu (@seren_sensei) July 29, 2016
The first sci-fi author to win a MacArthur Genius Grant:
OCTAVIA. BUTLER.#BlackWomenDidThathttps://t.co/bAuAtKnhDW pic.twitter.com/ljS7sjmJtd— Open Road Media (@OpenRoadMedia) July 29, 2016
Invented Thursday #BlackWomenDidThat pic.twitter.com/afquHLwS51
— Nyasha Junior (@NyashaJunior) July 29, 2016
Me learning new facts about black women that I never knew #BlackWomenDidThat pic.twitter.com/JxEnD4Vlmi
— [:•-•:] (@DubOnDaBeatz) July 29, 2016
Everyone is mad at this hashtag & I’m just like #BlackWomenDidThat pic.twitter.com/Lpc26sCT78
— D. (@itsquaa__) July 29, 2016