Women In History - Women of Color
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Marion Anderson (1897-1993)
African American Contralto
Sara Lucy Bagby (1833-1906)
One of the last fugitives to be surrendered by the North and returned to the South under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act before the Civil War.
Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931)
African-American educator, newspaperwoman, anti-lynching campaigner, founder NAACP
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)
African-American born pioneer journalist and lecturer
Bessie Coleman (1893-1926)
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American civil aviator, African American
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Mary Fields (1832?-1914)
African-American entrepreneur, stagecoach driver, pioneer – “Stagecoach Mary”
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
African American Jazz singer – the First Lady of Song
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018)
American singer, songwriter, pianist, and activist
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
African-American sharecropper turned civil rights worker and founder of the MS Freedom Democratic Party
Sally Hemings (1773-1835)
Thomas Jefferson’s concubine. For more than 200 years, her name has been linked to Thomas Jefferson's, obscuring the facts of her life and her identity. She was a daughter, mother, sister, aunt, inherited as property, seamstress, world traveler, enslaved woman, and liberator. But was she his mistress or his slave?
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
African American Jazz singer/songwriter – “Lady Day”
Mahalia Jackson (1912-1972)
Extraordinary gospel singer and the first African-American woman to gain national acclaim for gospel music
Jikonsaseh (17th century)
Peacemaker responsible for selecting representative members during the establishment of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
Katherine Johnson (1918-2020)
American Mathematician, NASA Pioneer and Educator
Elizabeth Keckley (1820-?)
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Enslaved woman who bought her freedom and became an entrepreneur; personal modiste, dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln
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Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
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Civil rights activist, known for refusing to give up her bus seat
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Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994)
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African American sprinter, track star Olympiad
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Sacagawea (1788 – 1812 or 1884)
Shoshone Native American woman who traveled the Louisiana Purchase with Lewis and Clark
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
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African-American lecturer, suffragette, civil rights leader
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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
Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008)
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African American mathematician and human computer featured in the movie "Hidden Figures"
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Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919)
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African-American entrepreneur, millionaire and philanthropist
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