Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or interna

Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Althea Gibson, Rosa Parks, Leontyne Price, Maya Angelou, Shirley Chisholm, 8 more.

Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and

The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one