"A Birch Lane Press book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-296) and index.
Contents:
Phillis Wheatley -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Ida B. Wells Barnett -- Mary Church Terrell -- Madame C.J. Walker -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Alberta Hunter -- Bessie Smith -- Hattie McDaniel -- Marian Anderson -- Ella Baker -- Josephine Baker -- Dorothy West -- Katherine Dunham -- Mahalia Jackson -- Dorothy Height -- Rosa Parks -- Billie Holiday -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Lena Horne -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Ruby Dee -- Shirley Chisholm -- Eartha Kitt -- Leontyne Price -- Maya Angelou -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Odetta -- Toni Morrison -- Audre Lorde -- Sonia Sanchez -- Barbara Jordan -- June Jordan -- Betty Shabazz -- Johnnetta Cole -- Mary Frances Berry -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Tina Turner -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Aretha Franklin -- Nikki Giovanni -- Angela Davis -- Alice Walker -- Susan Taylor -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Oprah Winfrey -- Florence Griffith Joyner.
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