Harriet Jacobs
Author of the autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” The book, now an “American classic,” gives a plain account of the horrors of slavery and her path to freedom.
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Lucy Parsons
Prominent African-American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist
Kassi
As the principal wife and paternal cousin of Mansa Suleyman, Kassi co-ruled the Kingdom of Mali jointly with her husband in the mid-1300s.
Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen
African-American writer, temperance activist and music professor
Tetisheri
Matriarch of the Egyptian royal family of the late 17th Dynasty and early 18th Dynasty.
Taos Amrouche
Algerian writer and singer Taos Amrouche became the first modern Algerian woman to publish a novel in 1947, the autobiographical Jacinthe noire. It is also one of the earliest novels published in French by a North African woman writer.
Alice Allison Dunnigan
In 1961, President Kennedy acknowledged Alice Dunnigan as the first African American White House correspondent after two years of being ignored. She became the first Black woman in the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries.
Eartha Kitt
American entertainer whose career spanned several decades and encompassed singing, acting, and dancing.
Nellie Griswold Francis
African-American suffragist, civil rights activist, and community leader.
Mildred Pitts Walter
American author and educator, renowned for her children’s books and young adult novels that often explore themes of racial identity and social justice.