Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
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Alice H Parker
African-American inventor who patented the modern central heating gas furnace, revolutionizing home heating systems.
Misty Copeland
Renowned American ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Maria
Maria was a slave and possibly the leader of a 1716 slave rebellion on Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies in 1716.
Dr Mary Logan Reddick
African-American neuroembryologist who earned her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1944.
Rita F Dove
American poet who served as Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress.
Dinah Washington
American vocalist and pianist; prominent black female recording artist in the 1950s.
Sonia Sanchez
American poet, writer, and teacher who played a pivotal role in the Black Arts Movement and authored more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children’s books.
Susie King Taylor
The first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, she became the earliest African-American woman to self-publish her memoirs.
Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.