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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)
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