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Black History Month, page 3

Literature and Poetry:

• Remi Adedeji (Nigeria)
• Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)
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  No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo
• Maya Angelou (U.S.A.: MO, CA, AR, NC)
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  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
• Augusta Baker (U.S.A.: NY, SC)
• 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)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (U.S.A.: KS, IL)
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  A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by George E. Kent
  Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Margaret Taylor Burroughs (U.S.A.: LA, IL)
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  A Shared Heritage : Art by Four African Americans by William E. Taylor et al.
• Akosua Busia (Ghana)
  The Seasons of Beento Blackbird : A Novel by Akosua Busia
• Octavia Butler (U.S.A.: CA)
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  Kindred (Black Women Writers Series) by Octavia E. Butler, Robert Crossley (Introduction)
  Dawn (Butler, Octavia E. Xenogenesis, Bk. 1.) by Octavia E. Butler
• Lucille Clifton (U.S.A.: NY, MD)
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  Good Woman : Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 (American Poets Continuum Series ; Vol. 14) by Lucille Clifton
• Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
  Nervous Conditions : A Novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga
• Rita Dove (U.S.A.: OH, AZ, VA)
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  C.V.
  Selected Poems by Rita Dove
• Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)
  Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
  The Slave Girl : A Novel by Buchi Emecheta
• Jessie Redmon Fauset (U.S.A.: PA, NJ, DC, NY)
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  Several of her poems
  Jessie Redmon Fauset : Black American Writer by Carolyn W. Sylvander
  Plum Bun : A Novel Without a Moral by Jessie Redmon Fauset, Deborah E. McDowell (Introduction)
• Lorraine Hansberry (U.S.A.: IL, NY)
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  Lorraine Hansberry : Award-Winning Playwright and Civil Rights Activist by Susan Sinnott
  A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Introduction)
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (U.S.A.: MD, OH, PA)
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  A Brighter Coming Day; A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader by Frances S. Foster (Editor)
  Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph : Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E.W. Harper by Frances Smith Foster (Editor) et al.
• Bessie Head (South Africa)
  Bessie Head Thunder Behind Her Ears : Her Life and Writing by Gillian Stead Eilersen, Gillian Stead Eilelrsen
  When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
• Zora Neale Hurston (U.S.A.: FL, NY)
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  The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston et al.
  Jump at De Sun : The Story of Zora Neale Hurston by A. P. Porter
• Noni Jabavu (South Africa, Great Britain)
  The Ochre People by Noni Jabavu
• Farida Karodia (South Africa, Canada)
  Against an African Sky : And Other Stories by Farida Karodia
  A Shattering of Silence by Farida Karodia
• Ellen Kuzwayo (South Africa)
• Harriet Jacobs (U.S.A.: NC, NY, DC, GA, MA)
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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Harriet A. Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Linda Brent, Walter Teller (Designer)
  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Downloadable version)
• Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua, U.S.A.: NY)
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  The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
  Lucy (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Jamaica Kincaid
• Nella Larsen (U.S.A.: IL, AL, NY)
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  Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen, Deborah McDowell (Editor)
• Audre Geraldine Lorde (U.S.A.: NY)
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  Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Sindiwe Magona (South Africa, U.S.A.: NY)
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  Forced to Grow by Sindiwe Magona
  Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night by Sindiwe Magona
• J. Nozipo Maraire (Zimbabwe, U.S.A.: CT)
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  Zenzele : A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire
• Terry McMillan (U.S.A.: MI, NY, CA)
  Interview with Terry McMillan
  Another interview
  How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
  Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
• Gcina Mhlope (South Africa)
• Toni Morrison (U.S.A.: OH, TX, DC, NY)
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  Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
  The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
  Paradise by Toni Morrison
• Micere Githare Mugo (Kenya, Uganda, Canada, U.S.A.: NY)
• Rebeka Njau (Kenya)
• Mpho M'atsepo Nthunya (Lesotho)
  Singing Away the Hunger : The Autobiography of an African Woman by Mpho `M'Atsepo Nthunya et al.
• Martina Awele Nwakoby (Nigeria)
• Flora Nwapa (Nigeria)
  Another biography
  Women Are Different by Flora Nwapa
  Never Again by Flora Nwapa
• Asenath Bole Odaga (Kenya)
• Grace Ogot (Kenya, Uganda, England)
• Osonye Tess Onwueme (Nigeria, U.S.A.: WI)
  Tell It to Women : An Epic Drama for Women by Osonye Tess Onwueme
• Menan du Plessis (South Africa)
• Sheila Roberts (South Africa, U.S.A.: MI)
• Charlemae Hill Rollins (U.S.A.: MS, IL)
• Zulu Sofola (Nigeria)
• Efua Theodora Sutherland (Ghana)
• Miriam Tlali (South Africa)
  Muriel at Metropolitan (African Classics) by Miriam Tlail, Miriam Tlali
• Adaora Lily Ulasi (Nigeria, Great Britain)
• Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe, Canada)
  Without a Name : A Novel by Yvonne Vera
• Alice Walker (U.S.A.: GA, MS, NY, MA, CA)
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  Alice Walker by Tony Gentry et al.
  Color Purple by Alice Walker
  By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
• Phyllis Wheatley (Senegal, U.S.A.: MA)
  Diversity and Phyllis Wheatley
  Phyllis Wheatley by Victoria Sherrow

Management and Labor Relations:

• Jacqueline Hicks Grazette (U.S.A.: MD, DC)
• Peggy W. Harmon (U.S.A.: VA)
• Lucy Parsons (U.S.A.: TX, IL)
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Mathematics:

• Marjorie Lee Browne (U.S.A.: TN, TX, MI, NC)
• Mary Sylvester Deconge (U.S.A.: LA)
• Evelyn Boyd Granville (U.S.A.: DC, TN, CA, TX)
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• Fern Y. Hunt (U.S.A.: NY, DC, MD)
• Katherine Okikiolu (England, U.S.A.: CA, NJ)
• Bonita V. Saunders (U.S.A.: VA, MD)
• Argelia Velez-Rodriguez (Cuba, U.S.A.: TX, DC)
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• Grace Alele Williams (Nigeria)

Meteorology:

• June Bacon-Bercey (U.S.A.: MD)

Military and Warfare:

• Amina Sarauniya Zazzua (Nigeria)
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• Queen Candace (Ethiopia)
  The Candace : Warrior Queens of the Kingdom of Kush by Dawn E. Reno
• Queen Dahia Al-Kahina (Carthage and Mauritania)
• Nehanda (Zimbabwe)
• Nzingha (Matamba West Africa)
  Nzinga (African Biographical Series) by Ramla Bandele
• Queen Tiye (Ancient Egypt)
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• Yaa Asantewaa (Asante, modern Ghana)
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Music:

• Aaliyah (Haughton) (U.S.A.: NY, MI)
• Marian Anderson (U.S.A.: PA, NY)
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  Online NewsHour profile
  Marian Anderson by Anne Tedards, Matina S. Horner (Designer)
  What I Had Was Singing : The Story of Marian Anderson by Jeri Ferris
• Patti Austin (U.S.A.: CA)
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  pattiaustin.com site
• Erykah Badu (U.S.A.: TX)
• Pearl Bailey (U.S.A.: VA, DC, PA, NY)
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  Film Credits
  Pearl Bailey : With a Song in Her Heart by Keith Brandt, Gershom Griffith (Illustrator)
• LaVern Baker (U.S.A.: IL, NY)
• Mary J. Blige (U.S.A.: NY, GA)
• Brandy (Brandy Norwood) (U.S.A.: MS, CA)
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• Toni Braxton (U.S.A.: MD, CA)
• Grace Bumbry (U.S.A.: MO)
  Interview with Grace Bumbry
• Mary Cardwell Dawson (U.S.A.: NC, PA)
• Missy Elliott (U.S.A.: VA)
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  Missy Elliott site
• Ella Fitzgerald (U.S.A.: VA, NY)
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  Ella's gone
  Ella Fitzgerald : A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz by Stuart Nicholson
  Ella Fitzgerald by Bud Kliment et al.
• Roberta Flack (U.S.A.: NC, VA, DC)
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  Filmography
• Aretha Franklin (U.S.A.: TN, MI)
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  Aretha Franklin : Motown Superstar by Silvia Anne Sheafer
  Aretha Franklin, Lady Soul by Leslie Gourse, David Shirley
• Lauryn Hill (U.S.A.: NJ)
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  Lauryn Hill; She's Got That Thing by Chris Nickson
• Billie Holiday (U.S.A.: PA, MD, NY)
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  Billie Holiday by Bud Kliment, Bud Klimet
  Lady Sings the Blues/With a Revised Discography by Billie Holiday et al.
• Shirley Horn (U.S.A.: DC, NY)
• Lena Horne (U.S.A.: NY, PA)
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  Lena Horne : Entertainer by Leslie Palmer et al.
  Lena Horne by Brett Howard
• Whitney Houston (U.S.A.: NJ)
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  Whitney Houston Online
  Whitney Houston by Ted Cox
  Good Girl, Bad Girl : An Insiders Biography of Whitney Houston by Kevin Ammons, Nancy Bacon (Contributor)
• Janet Jackson (U.S.A.: IN)
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  The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson by David Nathan, Luther Vandross (Foreword)
• Eva Jessye (U.S.A.: KS, NY)
• Grace Jones (Jamaica, U.S.A.: NY)
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  Filmography
• Chaka Khan (U.S.A.: IL)
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• Eartha Mae Kitt (U.S.A.: SC, NY)
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• Patti LaBelle (U.S.A.: PA)
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  The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson by David Nathan, Luther Vandross (Foreword)
• Monica (U.S.A.: GA)
• Queen Latifah (U.S.A.: NJ)
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  Ladies First : Revelations from a Strong Woman by Queen Latifah, Karen Hunter, Latifah
• "Ma" Raney (U.S.A.: GA)
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  Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
• Della Reese (U.S.A.: MI, CA)
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  Angels Along the Way : My Life With Help from Above by Della Reese et al.
• Diana Ross (U.S.A.: MI, NY)
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  DianaRoss & the Supremes Photo Gallery
  Diana Ross : Entertainer by John Wyeth et al.
  The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson by David Nathan, Luther Vandross (Foreword)
• Sade (Nigeria, Great Britain)
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  The Best of Sade
• Nina Simone (U.S.A.: NC, NY, PA)
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  Official Website
  I Put a Spell on You : The Autobiography of Nina Simone by Nina Simone, Stephen Cleary
  The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson by David Nathan
• Bessie Smith (U.S.A.: TN, NY, PA)
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  Bessie Smith Songbook
  Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
• Tina Turner (U.S.A.: TN, MO, CA)
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  I, Tina : My Life Story by Tina Turner, Kurt Loder
  Tina Turner by Judy L. Hasday
• Sarah Vaughan (U.S.A.: NJ)
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  Sassy : The Life of Sarah Vaughan by Leslie Gourse
• Dinah Washington (U.S.A.: AL, IL)
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• Ethel Waters (U.S.A.: PA, NY)
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  His Eye Is on the Sparrow : An Autobiography by Ethel Waters et al.
• Edith Goodall Wilson (U.S.A.: KY)
  Edith Wilson and her Jazz Hounds (Sound clips)
  He May Be Your Man...But He Comes To See Me... Edith Wilson
  Complete Recorded Works...Vol. 2 (1924-31) Edith & Lena Wilson

Philanthropy:

• Pearl Bailey (U.S.A.: VA, DC, PA, NY)
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  Film Credits
  Pearl Bailey : With a Song in Her Heart by Keith Brandt, Gershom Griffith (Illustrator)
• Bridget "Biddy" Mason (U.S.A.: MS, CA)
  Open Hands, Open Heart: The Story of Biddy Mason by Deidre D. Robinson, Albert T. Cooper III (Illustrator)

Physics:

• Shirley Ann Jackson (U.S.A.: DC, IL, NJ)
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Psychology:

• Patricia S. Cowings (U.S.A.: CA)

Religion:

• Barbara Harris (U.S.A.: PA)
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• Marie Laveau (U.S.A.: LA)
  A Plastic Rose for Marie Laveau By Michael Ventura
  Marie Laveau photos
  Mysterious Marie Laveau Voodoo Queen and Folk Tales Along the Mississippi by Raymond J. Martinez
• Sister Gertrude Morgan (U.S.A.: AL)
• Pauli Murray (U.S.A.: MD, NY, NC)
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  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

Social Service/Activism:

• Maryam Ibrahim Babangida (Nigeria)
• Ella Baker (U.S.A.: VA, NY, GA)
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  Ella Baker: Freedom Bound by Joanne Grant
• Joyce Banda (Malawi)
• Joyce Baskins (U.S.A.: PA)
• Daisy Gatson Bates (U.S.A.: AR)
  The Daisy Bates Papers
• Lillian Kennedy Beam (U.S.A.: OH, CA)
• Clara Brown (U.S.A.: VA, MO, CO)
  Aunt Clara Brown by Linda Lowery, Janice Lee Porter (Illustrator)
• Selena Sloan Butler (U.S.A.: GA)
• Septima Poinsette Clark (U.S.A.: SC)
• Celina Cossa (Mozambique)
• Ellen Smith Craft (U.S.A.: GA; Great Britain)
  Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom : The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery by William Craft, Ellen Craft, R. J. M. Blackett
  Two Tickets to Freedom : The True Story of Ellen and William Craft, Fugitive Slaves by Florence B. Freedman, Ezra Jack Keats (Illustrator)
• Angela Davis (U.S.A.: AL, CA)
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  1970 Interview with Angela Davis
  Angela Davis : An Autobiography by Angela Yvonne Davis
• Marian Wright Edelman (U.S.A.: SC, MS, DC)
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  "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
• Eka Esu-Williams (Nigeria)
• Bertha Gilkey (U.S.A.: IL, MO)
• Clara Hale (U.S.A.: NY)
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  Clara Hale : Mother to Those Who Needed One (Everyone Contributes) by Bob Italia, Rosie Wallner (Editor)
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (U.S.A.: MD, OH, PA)
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  A Brighter Coming Day; A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader by Frances S. Foster (Editor)
  Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph : Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E.W. Harper by Frances Smith Foster (Editor) et al.
• Barbara Harris (U.S.A.: PA)
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• Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (U.S.A.: VA, NC, MO, MD, DC)
• Harriet Jacobs (U.S.A.: NC, NY, DC, GA, MA)
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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Harriet A. Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Linda Brent, Walter Teller (Designer)
  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Downloadable version)
• Wangari Muta Maathai (Kenya)
• Graça Simbine Machel (Mozambique)
• Bridget "Biddy" Mason (U.S.A.: MS, CA)
  Open Hands, Open Heart: The Story of Biddy Mason by Deidre D. Robinson, Albert T. Cooper III (Illustrator)
• Joyce F. Mungherera (Uganda)
• Esther Afua Ocloo (Ghana)
• Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (Nigeria, U.S.A.)
  Re-Creating Ourselves : African Women & Critical Transformations
• Chief Bisi Ogunleye (Nigeria)
• Lucy Parsons (U.S.A.: TX, IL)
  Another biography
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• Mamphela Ramphele (Zaire)
  Installation photos
  Interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• Rachel Robinson (U.S.A.: NY)
  Jackie Robinson : An Intimate Portrait by Rachel Robinson et al.
• Josephine Ruffin (U.S.A.: MA)
• Mary Jane Seacole (Jamaica)
• Mary Burnette Talbert (U.S.A.: OH, AR, NY)
• Faye Wattleton (U.S.A.: MO, OH, IL)