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Black History Month, page 2

Education:

• Maria Louise Baldwin (U.S.A.: MA)
  Another profile
  Photo of Maria Baldwin
• Mary Frances Berry (U.S.A.: TN, MD, MI, DC, CO, PA)
  Online HewsHour Interview
  Long Memory : The Black Experience in America by Mary Frances Berry et al.
  Why Era Failed : Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution by Mary Frances Berry
• Mary McLeod Bethune (U.S.A.: SC, FL, DC)
  Another profile
  Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
  Mary McLeod Bethune by Malu Halasa, Coretta Scott King (Designer), Nathan I. Huggins (Editor)
  Building a Dream : Mary Bethune's School by Debbe Heller (Illustrator), Richard Kelso
• Tonya Bolden (U.S.A.: NY)
  The Book of African-American Women : 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters by Tonya Bolden
  33 Things Every Girl Should Know : Stories, Songs, Poems and Smart Talk by 33 Extraordinary Women by Tonya Bolden (Editor)
• Charlotte Hawkins Brown (U.S.A.: NC)
  Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial
  Charlotte Hawkins Brown State Historic Site
  Charlotte Hawkins Brown : One Woman's Dream by Diane Silcox-Jarrett
  'Mammy' an Appel to the Heart of the South : The Correct Thing to Do-To Say-To Wear Say-To Wear (African American Women Writers Series) by Charlotte Hawkins Brown et al.
• Hallie Q. Brown (U.S.A.: PA, MS, SC, OH)
  Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Hallie Q. Brown, Randall K. Burkett (Introduction)
• Selena Sloan Butler (U.S.A.: GA)
• Mary Shadd Cary (U.S.A.: DE, DC; Canada)
  Another profile
  Mary Ann Shadd Cary : The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes
• Septima Poinsette Clark (U.S.A.: SC)
• Johnnetta B. Cole (U.S.A.: FL, MA, NY, GA)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Dream the Boldest Dreams : And Other Lessons of Life by Johnnetta B. Cole, Johnetta B. Cole
  Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President by Johnnetta B. Cole, Johnetta B. Cole
• Marva N. Collins (U.S.A.: AL, IL)
  Marva Collins' Way by Marva Collins et al.
  Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers by Marva Collins
• Anna Julia Cooper (U.S.A.: NC, DC, MO)
  The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper : Including a Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters (Legacies of Social Thought) by Anna Julia Cooper, Charles Lemert (Editor), Esme Bhan (Editor)
• Fannie Jackson Coppin (U.S.A.: RI, OH, PA, DC)
• Sarah J. Early (U.S.A.: OH, NC)
• Milla Granson (U.S.A.: KY, MS)
• Evelyn Boyd Granville (U.S.A.: DC, TN, CA, TX)
  Another profile
• Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (U.S.A.: NC)
• Graça Simbine Machel (Mozambique)
  Another profile
• Mamphela Ramphele (South Africa)
  Installation photos
  Interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault
  Across Boundaries : The Journey of a South African Woman Leader by Mamphela Ramphele
  A Bed Called Home : Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town by Mamphela Ramphele, Roger Meintjes (Illustrator)
• Ruth Simmons (U.S.A.: TX, LA, NJ, CA, MA)
  Another profile
• Barbara Sizemore (U.S.A.: IL, DC, PA)
• Niara Sudarkasa (U.S.A.: NY, MI, PA)
  The Strength of Our Mothers : African & African American Women & Families : Essays and Speeches by Niara Sudarkasa
  Education Is Still the Key : Selected Speeches & Essays by Niara Sudarkasa
• Mary Church Terrell (U.S.A.: TN, OH, DC)
  Another biography
  Another biography
  Colored Woman in a White World (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940) by Mary Church Terrell, Nellie Y. McKay (Introduction)
  Mary Church Terrell : Leader for Equality by Pat McKissack et al.
• Marguerite Thomas Williams (U.S.A.: DC)

Engineering:

• Aprille Ericsson-Jackson (U.S.A.: NY, MA, DC, MD)
• Kim Hubbard (U.S.A.: CA)
• Julie Williams-Byrd (U.S.A.: VA)

Environment:

• Wangari Muta Maathai (Kenya)

Geology:

• Marguerite Thomas Williams (U.S.A.: DC)

Government and Politics:

• Diane Julie Abbott (Great Britain)
• Yaa Asantewaa (Asante, modern Ghana)
• Jean Augustine (Grenada, Canada)
• Mary Frances Berry (U.S.A.: TN, MD, MI, DC, CO, PA)
  Online HewsHour Interview
  Online NewsHour: Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews Mary Frances Berry
  Long Memory : The Black Experience in America by Mary Frances Berry, John W. Blassingamer, John W. Blassingame
  Why Era Failed : Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution by Mary Frances Berry
• Mary Eugenia Charles (Dominica)
• Shirley Chisholm (U.S.A.: NY)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Photo
  Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman by Jackson, Garnet Jackson
  The Honorable Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from Brooklyn by Nancy Hicks
• Cardiss Collins (U.S.A.: MO, MI, IL)
  Another biography
• Anne Clare Cools (Barbados, Canada)
• Patricia Roberts Harris (U.S.A.: IL, DC)
  Fact Sheet
  Postal stamp
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones (U.S.A.: OH)
• Barbara Charline Jordan (U.S.A.: TX)
  Another profile
  Another profileS
  More about Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Jordan : American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers
  Barbara Jordan: The Biography by Austin Teutsch et al.
• Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe (Uganda)
  Official Website
• Makeda, Queen of Sheba (Ethiopia)
  Another profile
• Carole Moseley-Braun (U.S.A.: IL)
  Another profile
• Nefertari (Ancient Egypt)
  House of Eternity : The Tomb of Nefertari (Conservation and Cultural Heritage Series) by John K. McDonald
• Nefertiti (Ancient Egypt)
  Another profile
  Nefertiti : Egypt's Sun Queen by Joyce A. Tyldesley

Health and Medicine:

• Dorothy Lavinia Brown (U.S.A.: PA, TN)
• Alexa Canady (U.S.A.: MI)
  Another profile
• May Edward Chinn (U.S.A.: MA, NY)
  Another profile
  Another profile
• Rebecca J. Cole (U.S.A.: PA, SC)
  Another profile
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler (U.S.A.: MA)
• M. Joycelyn Jones Elders (U.S.A.: AR)
• Justina Ford (U.S.A.: IL, CO)
  Another profile
• Mae C. Jemison (U.S.A.: IL, NH)
  Another profile
  Mae C. Jemison : 1st Black Female Astronaut by Ebraska D. Ceasor
• Mary Eliza Mahoney (U.S.A.: MA, NY)
  Another profile
  Mary Eliza Mahoney 1845-1926 : America's First Black Professional Nurse - A Historical Prospective by Helen S. Miller
• Susan Maria Smith McKinney-Steward (U.S.A.: NY)
  Grave of Susan Maria Smith McKinney Steward
• Grace Ogot (Kenya, Uganda, England)
• Mary Jane Seacole (Jamaica)
• Georgia E. Patton Washington (U.S.A.: TN)

History:

• Mary Frances Berry (U.S.A.: TN, MD, MI, DC, CO, PA)
  Online NewsHour: Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews Mary Frances Berry
  Long Memory : The Black Experience in America by Mary Frances Berry, John W. Blassingamer, John W. Blassingame
  Why Era Failed : Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution by Mary Frances Berry
• Darlene Clark Hine (U.S.A.: MI)
  Another profile
  Black Women in America : An Historical Encyclopedia by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor) et al.
  Hine Sight : Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History by Darlene Clark Hine, John Hope Franklin
• Drusilla Dunjee Houston (U.S.A.: VA, MN, OK)
  Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 1 by Drusilla Dunjee Houston

Human Rights:

• Ella Baker (U.S.A.: VA, NY, GA)
  Another profile
  Ella Baker: Freedom Bound by Joanne Grant
• Daisy Gatson Bates (U.S.A.: AR)
  The Daisy Bates Papers
• Mary Shadd Cary (U.S.A.: DE, DC; Canada)
  Another biography
  Mary Ann Shadd Cary : The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes
• Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer (U.S.A.: MS)
  Another biography
  This Little Light of Mine : The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kay Mills
  Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for the Vote by Penny Colman
• Coretta Scott King (U.S.A.: AL, GA)
  Another profile
  Coretta Scott King by Lisa Renee Rhodes
  Coretta Scott King : Striving for Civil Rights by Anne Schraff
• Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (South Africa)
• Rosa Louise Parks (U.S.A.: AL, MI)
  Another biography
  Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins (Contributor)
  Dear Mrs. Parks : A Dialogue With Today's Youth by Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed
• Efua Theodora Sutherland (Ghana)
• Mary Burnette Talbert (U.S.A.: OH, AR, NY)
• Mary Church Terrell (U.S.A.: TN, OH, DC)
  Another profile
  Colored Woman in a White World (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940) by Mary Church Terrell, Nellie Y. McKay (Introduction)
  Mary Church Terrell : Leader for Equality by Pat McKissack, Ned O. (Illustrator), Patrici McKissack, Ned Ostendorf (Illustrator), Fredrick L. McKissack (Contributor)
• Sojourner Truth (U.S.A.: NY, MA, KS, DC, MI)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Ain't I a Woman. Speech by Sojourner Truth delivered in 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio
  Sojourner Truth : Ain't I A Woman? by Pat McKissack et al.
  Sojourner Truth : A Life, a Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
• Harriet Tubman (U.S.A.: MD, PA, NY)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged
  Harriet Tubman : Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
  Harriet Tubman by Marian Taylor et al.
• Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (U.S.A.: MS, TN, IL)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Crusade for Justice; The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster (Editor)
  Ida B. Wells-Barnett : Crusader Against Lynching by Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli
• Fannie Barrier Williams (U.S.A.: NY, IL)
  Another biography

Invention:

• Bessie Blount (U.S.A.: VA, IL, NJ)
• Ellen Eglui (U.S.A.: DC)
• Marjorie Stewart Joyner (U.S.A.: VA, IL)
  Another profile
  African-American Inventors : Lonnie Johnson, Frederick McKinley Jones, Marjorie Stewart Joyner, Elijah McCoy, Garrett Augustus Morgan by Fred M. B. Amram et al.
• (Madame C.J.) Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker (U.S.A.: LA, MS, MO, CO, IN, NY)
  Another profile
  Villa Lewaro: Home of Madame C.J. Walker
  Madame C J Walker by Cookie Lommel
  Women Inventors : Catherine Green, Harriet Hosmer, Madame C.J. Walker, Yvonne Brill, Naney Perkins by Jean F. Blashfield

Journalism and Broadcasting:

• Grace Ogot (Kenya, Uganda, England)
• Mary Shadd Cary (U.S.A.: DE, DC; Canada)
  Another profile
  Mary Ann Shadd Cary : The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes
• Alice Dunnigan (U.S.A.: KY, DC) Another profile
  A Black woman's experience : from schoolhouse to White House by Alice Allison Dunnigan
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault (U.S.A.: SC, GA, DC, NY)
  Another biography
  Charlayne Hunter-Gault's next stop: Reporting in Africa
  In My Place by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• Ethel Payne (U.S.A.: DC)
  Interviews
• Josephine Ruffin (U.S.A.: MA)
  Another profile
• Maria Stewart (U.S.A.: CT, MA, DC, NY, MD)
  Maria W. Stewart : America's First Black Woman Political Writer : Essays and Speeches (Blacks in the Diaspora) by Marilyn Richardson (Editor)
• Adaora Lily Ulasi (Nigeria, Great Britain)
• Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (U.S.A.: MS, TN, IL)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Crusade for Justice; The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster (Editor)
  Ida B. Wells-Barnett : Crusader Against Lynching by Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli
• Oprah Winfrey (U.S.A.: MS, WI, TN, MD, IL)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Oprah's web site:www.oprah.com
  Journey to Beloved by Oprah Winfrey, Ken Regan (Photographer), Jonathan Demme
  The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey : A Portrait in Her Own Words by Oprah Winfrey, Bill Adler (Editor)
  Oprah Winfrey by Lois P. Nicholson

Law:

• Aduke Alakija (Nigeria, Great Britain)
• Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (U.S.A.: PA, DC, NC)
  Another profile
• Jane Matilda Bolin (U.S.A.: MA, NY)
  Another profile
• Marian Wright Edelman (U.S.A.: SC, MS, DC)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  "Standing Up For The World's Children: Leave No Child Behind" (Gifts of Speech)
  The Measure of Our Success : A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman
  Marian Wright Edelman : The Making of a Crusader by Beatrice Siegel
• Patricia Roberts Harris (U.S.A.: IL, DC)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Postal stamp
• Barbara Charline Jordan (U.S.A.: TX)
  Another profile
  More about Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Jordan : American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers
  Barbara Jordan: The Biography by Austin Teutsch et al.
• Constance Baker Motley (U.S.A.: CT, NY)
  Another profile
  Constance Baker Motley : Civil Rights Leader and Judge
• Pauli Murray (U.S.A.: MD, NY, NC)
  Another profile
  Pauli Murray : The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest and Poet by Pauli Murray
  Proud Shoes : The Story of an American Family (Black Women Writers Series) by Pauli Murray
• Edith Sampson (U.S.A.: PA, IL)