An ever-expanding list of resources for learning about famous African American women and other women of Black History. You'll find women who are famous and women who should be better-known, from early America and slavery to the 21st century, including the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement. See also: African American History and Women: Timeline 1492-present
Famous African American Women: A - M
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- librarian, playwright
Regina Anderson Biography
- singer, actress, activist, writer, poet
Maya Angelou Quotes
- singer, performer, stage, film, special ambassador
Pearl Bailey Biography, Pearl Bailey Quotes
- entertainer
Josephine Baker Biography, Josephine Baker Index
- journalist, civil rights activist
Daisy Bates Biography
- educator, racial justice activist, New Deal government official
Mary McLeod Bethune Profile, Full Biography of Mary McLeod Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes, Mary McLeod Bethune Index
- writer, educator
Marita Bonner Biography
- poet, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1950, poet laureate of Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks Biography, Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes, Gwendolyn Brooks Index, Gwendolyn Brooks Poems Online
- educator, lecturer, clubwoman, reformer
Hallie Quinn Brown Biography
- politician
Shirley Chisholm Biography, Shirley Chisholm Quotes
- radical black activist, educator, philosopher
Angela Davis Biography, Angela Davis Quotes, Angela Davis Index
- actress, activist
Ruby Dee Quotes
- founded religious order
Henriette Delille Biography
- writer, teacher; Harlem Renaissance figure
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Biography, Alice Dunbar-Nelson Books
- lawyer, educator, activist, reformer, children's advocate, administrator
Marian Wright Edelman Biography, Marian Wright Edelman Quotes, Books by and About Marian Wright Edelman, Marian Wright Edelman Index
- preacher, emancipated slave, autobiographer
Elizabeth Biography
- activist
Myrlie Evers Quotes
- poet; Harlem Renaissance figure
Jessie Redmon Fauset Biography
- tennis player
Althea Gibson Biography, Althea Gibson Quotes, Althea Gibson Index
- writer
Angelina Weld Grimke Quotes
- activist, sharecropper
Fannie Lou Hamer Biography, Fannie Lou Hamer Profile, Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
- writer, abolitionist
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Biography, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Quotes
- activist, reformer, organizer
Dorothy Height Biography, Dorothy Height Quotes
- slave, likely mistress of Thomas Jefferson and mother of several of his children
Sally Hemings Index, Sally Hemings Biography, Sally Hemings Article
- singer
Billie Holiday Quotes
- musician, pianist, educator, poet
Ariel Williams Holloway Biography
- writer, theologian, philosopher
bell hooks Quotes
- singer, actress
Lena Horne Biography, Lena Horne Quotes
- writer, folklorist, anthropologist
Zora Neale Hurston Biography, Zora Neale Hurston Quotes, Zora Neale Hurston Index
- astronaut, physician
Mae Jemison Quotes, Mae Jemison Index
- poet; Harlem Renaissance figure
Georgia Douglas Johnson Biography
- politician
Barbara Jordan Biography, Barbara Jordan Quotes
- lawyer, activist
Florynce Kennedy Quotes
- athlete
Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
- writer, nurse
Nella Larsen Biography
- sculptor
Edmonia Lewis Biography
- writer, poet, activist, librarian
Audre Lorde Quotes
- educator, activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Wangari Maathai Biography, Wangari Maathai Quotes
- writer; winner, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993
Toni Morrison Biography, Toni Morrison Quotes, Toni Morrison Bibliography
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