Presents brief biographies of 100 Black American women who have had an impact on American life, including Marian Anderson, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, Marguerite Ross Barnett, Daisy Bates, Mary Frances Berry, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Gwendolyn Brooks and many more.
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Marian Anderson, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, Marguerite Ross Barnett, Daisy Bates, Mary Frances Berry, Mary McLeod Bethune, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Taylor Burroughs, Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Shirley Chisholm, Jewel Plummer Cobb, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Bessie Coleman, Cardiss Collins, Janet Collins, Marva Collins, Annie J. Cooper, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, Ellen Craft, Angela Davis, Juliette Derricotte, Katherine Dunham, Ramona Hoage Edelin, Marian Wright Edelman, Effie O'Neal Ellis, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Mary Hatwood Futrell, Zelma Watson George, Althea Gibson, Nikki Giovanni, Whoppi Goldberg, Angelina Weld Grimke, Lucille C. Gunning, Clara Hale, Fannie Lou Hamer, Virginia Hamilton, Lorraine Hansberry, Barbara Harris, Marcelite J. Harris, Dorothy Height, Aileen Hernandez, Clementine Hunter, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Ann Jackson, Mae C. Jemison, Barbara Jordan, Florence Griffith Joyner, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Elizabeth Keckley, Leontine Kelly, Sharon Pratt Kelly, Flo Kennedy, Coretta Scott King, Yolanda King, Jewel Stradford Lafontant, Elma Lewis, Audre Lorde, Annie Turnbo Malone, Biddy Mason, Queen Mother Audley Moore, Toni Morrison, Constance Baker Motley, Pauli Murray, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rosa Parks, Carrie Saxon Perry, Leontyne Price, Ernesta G. Procope, Barbara Gardner proctor, Bernice J. Reagon, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Wilma Rudolph, Gloria Scott, Attallah Shabazz, Ntozake Shange, Althea T.L. Simmons, Carole Simpson, Naomi Sims, Bessie Smith, Juanita Kidd Stout, Niara Sudarkasa, Susan I. Taylor, Susie King Taylor, Mary Church Terrell, Jackie torrence, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Sarah Vaughan, Mother Charleszetta Waddles, Alice Walker, Madame C.J. Walker, Maggie L. Walker, Faye Wattleton, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Phillis Wheatley, Oprah Winfrey.