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Great African-American women
Lists the achievements of over 500 great African American women in history.
Marian Anderson
Maya Angelou
Evelyn Ashford
Pearl Bailey
Maria Louise Baldwin
Janie Porter Barrett
Kathleen Battle
Mary McLeod Bethune
Jane M. Bolin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Hallie Q. Brown
Nanie Helen Burroughs
Eunice Hunton Carter
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Shirley Chisholm
Johnnetta B. Cole
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
Fanny Jackson Coppin
Ellen Craft
Dorothy Dandridge
Ruby Dee
Sarah Mapps Douglass
Rita Dove
Katherine Dunham
Marian Wright Edelman
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Crystal Fauset
Ella Fitzgerald
Roberta Flack
Aretha Franklin
Irene McCoy Gaines
Sarah Garnet
Althea Gibson
Nikki Giovanni
Whoopi Goldberg
Emma Azalia Smith Hackley
Fannie Lou Hamer
Virginia Hamilton
Lorraine Hansberry
Elizabeth Ross Haynes
Dorothy Height
Anita Hill
Billie Holiday
Lena Horne
Whitney Houston
Addie Waites Hunton
Zora Neale Hurston
Mahalia Jackson
Judith Jamison
Mae C. Jemison
Barbara Jordan
Florence Griffith Joyner
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Coretta Scott King
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
Lucy Craft Laney
Marjorie McKenzie Lawson
Edmonia Lewis
Hattie McDaniel
Mary Mahoney
Victoria Earle Matthews
Cheryl Miller
Toni Morrison
Lucy Moten
Constance Baker Motley
Jessye Norman
Rosa Parks
Leontyne Price
Elreta Alexander Ralston
Charlotte E. Ray
Sarah Parker Remond
Rubye Doris Smith Robinson
Wilma Rudolph
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Edith S. Sampson
Betty Shabazz
Lucy Diggs Slowe
Amanda Berry Smith
Bessie Smith
Maria W. Stewart
Juanita Kidd Stout
Mary Church Terrell
Adah Thoms
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Tina Turner
Cicely Tyson
Wyomia Tyus
Sarah Vaughan
Alice Walker
Madam C. J. Walker
Maggie L. Walker
Dionne Warwick
Ethel Waters
Maxine Waters
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Phillis Wheatley
Vanessa L. Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Lynette Woodward
Other great African-American women.
Maya Angelou
Evelyn Ashford
Pearl Bailey
Maria Louise Baldwin
Janie Porter Barrett
Kathleen Battle
Mary McLeod Bethune
Jane M. Bolin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Hallie Q. Brown
Nanie Helen Burroughs
Eunice Hunton Carter
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Shirley Chisholm
Johnnetta B. Cole
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
Fanny Jackson Coppin
Ellen Craft
Dorothy Dandridge
Ruby Dee
Sarah Mapps Douglass
Rita Dove
Katherine Dunham
Marian Wright Edelman
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Crystal Fauset
Ella Fitzgerald
Roberta Flack
Aretha Franklin
Irene McCoy Gaines
Sarah Garnet
Althea Gibson
Nikki Giovanni
Whoopi Goldberg
Emma Azalia Smith Hackley
Fannie Lou Hamer
Virginia Hamilton
Lorraine Hansberry
Elizabeth Ross Haynes
Dorothy Height
Anita Hill
Billie Holiday
Lena Horne
Whitney Houston
Addie Waites Hunton
Zora Neale Hurston
Mahalia Jackson
Judith Jamison
Mae C. Jemison
Barbara Jordan
Florence Griffith Joyner
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Coretta Scott King
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
Lucy Craft Laney
Marjorie McKenzie Lawson
Edmonia Lewis
Hattie McDaniel
Mary Mahoney
Victoria Earle Matthews
Cheryl Miller
Toni Morrison
Lucy Moten
Constance Baker Motley
Jessye Norman
Rosa Parks
Leontyne Price
Elreta Alexander Ralston
Charlotte E. Ray
Sarah Parker Remond
Rubye Doris Smith Robinson
Wilma Rudolph
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Edith S. Sampson
Betty Shabazz
Lucy Diggs Slowe
Amanda Berry Smith
Bessie Smith
Maria W. Stewart
Juanita Kidd Stout
Mary Church Terrell
Adah Thoms
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Tina Turner
Cicely Tyson
Wyomia Tyus
Sarah Vaughan
Alice Walker
Madam C. J. Walker
Maggie L. Walker
Dionne Warwick
Ethel Waters
Maxine Waters
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Phillis Wheatley
Vanessa L. Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Lynette Woodward
Other great African-American women.
Item details
- ISBN: 0517162164
- ISBN: 9780517162163
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Physical Description:
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xi, 335 p. : ports ; 29 cm. - Edition: 2000 ed.
- Publisher: New York : Gramercy Books, 2000.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Originally published: Middle Village, N.Y. : J. David, c1999. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-320) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Marian Anderson Maya Angelou Evelyn Ashford Pearl Bailey Maria Louise Baldwin Janie Porter Barrett Kathleen Battle Mary McLeod Bethune Jane M. Bolin Gwendolyn Brooks Hallie Q. Brown Nanie Helen Burroughs Eunice Hunton Carter Mary Ann Shadd Cary Shirley Chisholm Johnnetta B. Cole Anna Julia Haywood Cooper Fanny Jackson Coppin Ellen Craft Dorothy Dandridge Ruby Dee Sarah Mapps Douglass Rita Dove Katherine Dunham Marian Wright Edelman Myrlie Evers-Williams Crystal Fauset Ella Fitzgerald Roberta Flack Aretha Franklin Irene McCoy Gaines Sarah Garnet Althea Gibson Nikki Giovanni Whoopi Goldberg Emma Azalia Smith Hackley Fannie Lou Hamer Virginia Hamilton Lorraine Hansberry Elizabeth Ross Haynes Dorothy Height Anita Hill Billie Holiday Lena Horne Whitney Houston Addie Waites Hunton Zora Neale Hurston Mahalia Jackson Judith Jamison Mae C. Jemison Barbara Jordan Florence Griffith Joyner Jackie Joyner-Kersee Coretta Scott King Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin Lucy Craft Laney Marjorie McKenzie Lawson Edmonia Lewis Hattie McDaniel Mary Mahoney Victoria Earle Matthews Cheryl Miller Toni Morrison Lucy Moten Constance Baker Motley Jessye Norman Rosa Parks Leontyne Price Elreta Alexander Ralston Charlotte E. Ray Sarah Parker Remond Rubye Doris Smith Robinson Wilma Rudolph Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Edith S. Sampson Betty Shabazz Lucy Diggs Slowe Amanda Berry Smith Bessie Smith Maria W. Stewart Juanita Kidd Stout Mary Church Terrell Adah Thoms Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Tina Turner Cicely Tyson Wyomia Tyus Sarah Vaughan Alice Walker Madam C. J. Walker Maggie L. Walker Dionne Warwick Ethel Waters Maxine Waters Ida B. Wells-Barnett Phillis Wheatley Vanessa L. Williams Oprah Winfrey Lynette Woodward Other great African-American women. |
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