Stagecoach Mary fields. Photo Credit: © Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

United States – Mary Fields, First African American woman employed as a stagecoach mail carrier

Mary Fields (1832–1914) also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary was the first African American woman employed as a stagecoach mail carrier in the United States.

In 1895, she hitched a team of six horses faster than all the other job applicants and was hired on the spot. She was just the second American woman to work for the United States Postal Service. Her territory was Montana.

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