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Notable African American Women
Marian Anderson
Singer
Maya Angelou
Author, Poet, Speaker
Josephine Baker
Actress, Singer
Ida B. Wells Barnett
Mary McCloud Bethune
Activist, Educator
Mary Elizabeth Bowser
Shirley Chisholm
Congresswoman
Bessie Coleman
Aviatrix
Dorothy Dandridge
Actress
Elizabeth Eckford
One of the Little Rock Nine
Mary Fields
Entrepreneur, Stagecoach driver, Pioneer
Fannie Lou Hamer
Civil Rights Worker
Mahalia Jackson
Singer
Mae Jemison
Astronaut
Barbara Jordan
Politician
Zora Neale Hurston
Coretta Scott King
Civil Rights Leader
Toni Morrison
Author, Writer
Mary White Ovington
Rosa Parks
Civil Rights Activist
Wilma Rudolph
Olympic Gold Medalist
Mary Burnette Talbert
Mary Church Terrell
Sojouner Truth
Harriett Tubman
Leader of the Underground Railroad
Alice Walker
Author
Sarah Madam C.J. Walker
Entrepreneur
Phillis Wheatley
American Revolution Patriot
Additional Resources
- Jane Addams(1860-1935) - Social Activist, founder of Hull House and the NAACP, Nobel Peace Prize winner and labor union organizer.
- Marian Anderson(1902-1995) - First African American to sing leading role with Metropolitan Opera, delegate to U.N.
- Josephine Baker(1906-1975) - African-American international star, civil rights activist, World War II heroine.
- Ida B. Wells Barnett(1862-1931) - African-American educator, newspaperwoman, anti-lynching campaigner, founder NAACP.
- Mary McLeod Bethune(1875-1955) African-American educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, Presidential advisor, recipient of Spingarn Medal.
- Mary Elizabeth Bowser( 1839-?) - African-American Union spy in the Confederate White House.
- Eliza Bryant(1827-1907) - African-American founder of the The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People.
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary(1823-1893) African-American born pioneer journalist and lecturer.
- Bessie Coleman (1893-1926) - First African-American woman to get pilot's license.
- Dorothy Dandridge (1923-1965) - Actress, singer and dancer. Star of Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess.
- Mary Fields(1832?-1914) - African-American entrepreneur, stagecoach driver, pioneer.
- Diana Fletcher(circa 1830's) - Daughter of a former slave father and Kiowa mother, activist, taught in black Cherokee school.
- Zelma Watson George(1903-1994) - African-American delegate to the U.N., opera singer, speaker and educator.
- Charlotte Forten Grimke(1837-1890) - African-American writer, abolitionist and educator.
- Fannie Lou Hamer(1917-1977) - African-American sharecropper turned civil rights worker and founder of the MS Freedom Democratic Party.
- Sally Hemings(1773-1835) - African American who sacrificed her freedom from slavery for the love of President Thomas Jefferson.
- Jane Edna Hunter(1882-1971) - African-American social worker, attorney, founder of Phyllis Wheatley Association of Cleveland.
- Zora Neale Hurston(1903-1960) - African-American writer from The Harlem Group, influenced Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.
- Mahalia Jackson(1912-1972) - Extraordinary gospel singer and the first African-American woman to gain national acclaim for gospel music.
- Rebecca Jackson( ??) - African-American eldress of the Shaker sect in Cleveland.
- Harriet Jacobs(1813-1897) - African-American escaped slave, author and abolitionist.
- Sissieretta Jones(1869-1933) - African-American international vocal prima donna of late 19th century, favorite of George Bernard Shaw and several presidents.
- Barbara Jordan(1936-1996) - African-American orator and Congresswoman.
- Elizabeth Keckley(1820-?) Personal maid, best friend and confidant to Mary Todd Lincoln. Wrote tell-all book after leaving Mrs. Lincoln's employ.
- Marie LaVeau (1796?-1863?) - African-American Voodoo Queen of New Orleans and famous herbalist.
- Edmonia Lewis( 1843-?) - First successful African-American sculptor.
- Biddy Mason(1818-1891) - Entrepreneur, one of first African-American women to own land in California.
- Susan McKinney(1848-1918) - First female African-American doctor in New York State.
- Mrs. George (Hannah?) Peake(1755-18??) - First African-American settler of Cleveland.
- Wilma Rudolph(1940-1994) - African-American Olympic Gold Medalist.
- Bessie Smith(1894-1937) - African-American blues singer.
- Valaida Snow(190?-1956) - African-American band leader and trumpet player.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896) - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Susie King Taylor(1848-1912) - First African-American U.S. Army nurse during the Civil War.
- Mary Church Terrell(1863-1954) - African-American lecturer, suffragette, civil rights leader.
- Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)(1797-1883) - African-American abolitionist, Civil War nurse, suffragette.
- Harriet Tubman(1820?-1913) - Underground Railroad conductor, Army scout, African-American suffragette.
- Madame C.J. Walker(1867-1919) - African-American entrepreneur, millionaire and philanthropist.
- Hazel Mountain Walker(1900-1980) - African-American attorney, school principal, actress at Karamu
- Phillis Wheatley(175?-1784) - First noted African-American woman poet.
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