Pauline Hopkins
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”
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Jessie Garnett
Boston’s first African American woman dentist
Dorothy West
Harlem Renaissance novelist
Elma Lewis
Founded the National Center for Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) in 1968 eighteen years after opening the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (ELSFA) in Boston
Fern Cunningham
American sculptor
Donna Summer
The Queen of Disco who won five Grammys and sold more than one hundred million records worldwide.
Jessye Norman
African-American opera and jazz singer
Leontyne Price
Grammy-winning African-American opera singer
Ella Little-Collins
She joined the Nation of Islam in the mid-1950s where she helped to establish a mosque with a daycare center attached to it. In the early 1940s, she became the guardian of her half-brother Malcolm Little, who later changed his name to Malcolm X
Toni Bullock
Pioneering funeral home owner, a WWII radio operator, and the youngest Black woman to earn an embalming license in Massachusetts.