Notable Black American Women: Alice of Dunk's Ferry (c. 1686-1802) : Oral historian, slave, toll collector

Contains 500 Biographies, Including: Marian Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Lillian Hardin Armstrong -- Pearl Bailey -- Ella Baker -- Josephine Baker -- Charlotta Spears Bass -- Daisy Bates -- Louise Beavers -- Mary Mcleod Bethune -- Carol Brice -- Nannie Helen Burroughs -- Diahann Carroll -- Betty Carter -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Barbara Chase-riboud -- Alice Childress -- Shirley Chisholm -- Septima Clark -- Alice Coachman -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Marva Collins -- Camille Cosby -- Ida Cox -- Dorothy Dandridge -- Margaret Danner -- Angela Davis -- Ruby Dee -- Irene Diggs -- Mattiwilda Dobbs -- Dorothy Donegan -- Rita Dove -- Dunham, Katherine -- Evelyn Ellis -- Evans, Mari -- Ada L. Fisher -- Aretha Franklin -- Charlotte White Franklin -- Althea Gibson -- Nikki Giovanni -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Rosa Guy -- Adelaide Hall -- Juanita Hall -- Virginia Hamilton -- Sally Hemmings -- Billy Holiday -- Jennifer Holliday -- Lena Horne -- Clementine Hunter -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson -- Mahalia Jackson -- Nell Jackson -- Harriet Ann Jacobs -- Mae C. Jemison -- Beverly Johnson -- Eunice Walker Johnson -- Helene Johnson -- Lois M. Jones -- Sissieretta Jones -- June Jordan -- Leontine Kelly -- Florynce Kennedy -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Coretta Scott King -- Eartha Kitt -- Nella Larsen -- Abbey Lincoln -- Audre Lorde -- Hattie Mcdaniel -- Paule Marshall -- Louise Meriwether -- Melba Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Pauli Murray -- Jessye Norman -- Odetta -- Painter, Nell Irvin -- Rosa Parks -- Ann Lane Petry -- Florence Price -- Leontyne Price -- Pearl Primus -- Ma Rainey -- Gloria Richardson -- Diana Ross -- Wilma Rudolph -- Sonia Sanchez -- Naomi Sims -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Tina Turner -- Cicely Tyson -- Sarah Vaughan -- Alice Walker -- Madam C. J. Walker -- Clara Mae Ward -- Dionne Warwick -- Dinah Washington -- Ethel Waters -- Dorothy West -- Edith Wilson -- Oprah Winfrey. Vol. 1. Clara Leach Adams-ender (1939- ) -- Cecelia Adkins (1923- ) -- Octavia Albert (1853-c. 1899) -- Sadie Alexander (1898-1989) -- Elreta Alexander Ralston (1919- ) -- Debbie Allen (1950- ) -- Caroline Still Anderson (1848-1919) -- Marian Anderson (c. 1900- ) -- Regina M. Anderson (1901- ) -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- Lillian Hardin Armstrong (1989-1971) -- Gertrude Elise Ayer (1884-1971) -- Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) -- Augusta Baker (1911- ) -- Ella Baker (1903-1986) -- Josephine Baker (1906-1975) -- Maria Louise Baldwin (1856-1922) -- Carnella Barnes (1911- ) -- Etta Moten Barnett (1902- ) -- Marguerite Ross Barnett (1942- ) -- Janie Porter Barrett (1865-1948) -- Willie B. Barrow (1924- ) -- Charlotta Spears Bass (1880-1969) -- Daisy Bates (1920- ) -- Flora Batson (1864-1906) -- Bessye Bearden (1888-1943) -- Delilah Leontium Beasley (1867-1934) -- Phoebe Beasley (1943- ) -- Louise Beavers (1902-1981) -- Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981) -- Mary Francis Berry (1938- ) --^ Mary Mcleod Bethune (1875-1955) -- Camille Billops (1933- ) -- Jane M. Bolin (1908- ) -- Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) -- Matilda Booker (1887-1957) -- Eva Del Vakia Bowles (1875-1943) -- Mary Elizabeth Bowser (1839-?) -- Mary E. Branch (1881-1944) -- Carol Brice (1918-1985) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) -- Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) -- Dorothy Brown (1919- ) -- Hallie Brown (c. 1845-1949) -- Letitia Brown (1915-1976) -- Josephine Beall Bruce (18?-1923) -- Grace Ann Bumbry (1937- ) -- Selma Hortense Burke (1900- ) -- Yvonne Braithwaite Burke (1932- ) -- Margaret Taylor Burroughs (1917- ) -- Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) -- Vinie Burrows (1928- ) -- Anita Bush (1883-1974) -- Octavia E. Butler (1947- ) -- Selena Sloan Butler (1872?-1964) -- Shirley Caesar (1938- ) -- Blanche Calloway (1902-1973) -- Lucie Campbell Williams (1885-1962) -- Alexa Canady (1950- ) -- Mary Elizabeth Carnegie (1916- ) -- Diahann Carroll (1935- ) -- Betty Carter (1929- ) --^ Eunice Hunton Carter (1899-1970) -- Elizabeth Carter Brooks (1867-1951) -- Alice Dugged Cary (?-1941) -- Melnea Cass (1896-1978) -- Elizabeth Catlett (1915- ) -- Barbara Chase-riboud (1939- ) -- Alice Childress (1920- ) -- May Edward Chinn (1896-1980) -- Shirley Chisholm (1924- ) -- Septima Clark (1898-1987) -- Alice Coachman (1923- ) -- Jewell Plummer Cobb (1924- ) -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole (1936- ) -- Rebecca J. Cole (1846-1922) -- Bessie Coleman (1893-1926) -- Cardiss Collins (1931- ) -- Janet Collins (1917- ) -- Marva Collins (1936- ) -- Coralie Cook (18?-1942) -- Anna J. Cooper (1858/59-1964) -- Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837-1913) -- Camille Cosby (1945- ) -- Julia Ringwood Coston (18?- ?) -- Elizabeth Libba Cotten (1892-1987) -- Marie Bernard Couvent (c. 1757-1837) -- Ida Cox (1896-1967) -- Ellen Craft (c. 1826-c. 1897) -- Otelia Cromwell (1874-1972) -- Maud Cuney Hare (1874-1936) -- Marion Vera Cuthbert (1896-1989) Vol. 1 Cont. Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965) -- Margaret Danner (1915- ) -- Angela Davis (1944- ) -- Elizabeth Lindsay Davis (1855- ?) -- Henrietta Vinton Davis (1860-1941) -- Hilda Davis (1905- ) -- Jennie Dean (1852-1913) -- Ruby Dee (1924- ) -- Lucy A. Delaney (1830-?) -- Sara Sadie P. Delaney (1889-1958) -- Clarissa Scott Delany (1901-1927) -- Wilhelmina R. Delco (1929- ) -- Henriette Delille And The Sisters Of The Holy Family (1813-1862) -- Bernadine Newsom Denning (1930- ) -- Juliette Derricotte (1897-1931) -- Irene Diggs (1906- ) -- Sharon Pratt Dixon (1944- ) -- Mattiwilda Dobbs (1925- ) -- Dorothy Donegan (1922- ) -- Anna Murray Douglass (1813-1882) -- Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882) -- Rita Dove (1952- ) -- Shirley Graham Du Bois (1904-1977) -- Alice Dunbar-nelson (1875-1935) -- Katherine Dunham (1909- ) -- Alice Dunnigan (1906-1983) -- Alfreda M. Duster (1904-1983) -- Eva B. Dykes (1893-1986) -- Ramona Hoage Edelin (1945- ) -- Marian Wright Edelman (1939- ) --^ Helen G. Edmonds (1911- ) -- Ophelia Settle Egypt (1903-1984) -- Zilpha Elaw (1790?-?) -- Elleanor Eldridge (1785-1865) -- Daisy Elliott (1919- ) -- Effie O'neal Ellis (1913- ) -- Evelyn Ellis (1894-1958) -- Mari Evans (1923- ) -- Matilda Arabella Evans (1872-1935) -- Lillian Evanti (1890-1967) -- Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979) -- Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset (1893-1965) -- Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) -- Dorothy Boulding Ferebee (1890-1980) -- Catherine Ferguson (1779?-1854) -- Mary Fields (1832?-1914) -- Ada L. Fisher (1924- ) -- Ella Fitzgerald (1918- ) -- Lethia C. Fleming (1876-1963) -- Kay Stewart Flippin (1906- ) -- Ida Forsyne (1883- ?) -- Margaretta Forten (1808-1875) -- Charlotte L. Forten Grimké (1837-1914) -- Aretha Franklin (1942- ) -- Charlotte White Franklin (19?- ) -- J. E. Franklin (1937- ) -- Martha Minerva Franklin (1870-1968) -- Elizabeth Freeman (c. 1744-1829) -- Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) -- Mary Hatwood Futrell (1940- ) -- Marie D. Gadsden (1919- ) --^ Irene Mccoy Gaines (1892-1964) -- Phillis Phyl T. Garland (1935- ) -- Sarah Garnet (1831-1911) -- Frances Joseph Gaudet (1861-1934) -- Zelma Watson George (1903- ) -- Althea Gibson (1927- ) -- Paula Giddings (1947- ) -- Nikki Giovanni (1943- ) -- Eliza Gleason (1909- ) -- Whoopi Goldberg (1950- ) -- Nora Antonia Gordon (1866-1901) -- Elizabeth T. Greenfield (c. 1819-1876) -- Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) -- Verta Mae Grosvenor (1938- ) -- Lucille C. Gunning (1922- ) -- Rosa Guy (1928- ) -- E. Azalia Hackley (1867-1922) -- Clara Hale (1905- ) -- Millie E. Hale (1881-1930) -- Adelaide Hall (1904- ) -- Juanita Hall (1901-1968) -- Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) -- Grace Towns Hamilton (1907- ) -- Virginia Hamilton (1936- ) -- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) -- Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911) -- Barbara Harris (1930- ) -- Judia C. Jackson Harris (1873-19?) -- Marcelite J. Harris (1943- ) -- Patricia Harris (1924-1985) -- Trudier Harris (1948- ) -- Hazel Harrison (1883-1969) --^ Vivian Harsh (1890-1960) -- Della Irving Hayden (1851-1924) -- Elizabeth Ross Haynes (1883-1953) -- Eliza Healy (1846-1919) -- Josephine D. Heard (1861-1921?) -- Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1899-1990) -- Dorothy Height (1912- ) -- Sally Hemings (1773-1836) -- Aileen Hernandez (1926- ) -- Amanda Gray Hilyer (1870-1957) -- Natalie Hinderas (1927-1987) -- Billie Holiday (1915-1959) -- Annie Wealthy Holland (1871-1934) -- Jennifer Holliday (1960- ) -- Margaret Cardozo Holmes (1898- ) -- Nora Holt (c. 1885-1974) -- Julia Hooks (1852-1942) -- Lugenia Burns Hope (1871-1947) -- Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) -- Lena Horne (1917- ) -- Anna Hudlun (1819-1914) -- Gloria Hull (1944- ) -- Alberta Hunter (1895-1984) -- Clementine Hunter (1886-1988) -- Jane Edna Hunter (1882-1971) -- Charlayne Hunter-gault (1942- ) -- Addie W. Hunton (1875-1943) -- Ruby Hurley (c. 1913- ) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Jean Blackwell Hutson (1914- ) --^ The Hyers Sisters. Anna Madah Hyers (c. 1856-1930s). Emma Louise Hyers (c. 1858-c. 1899) Vol. 1 Cont. Edith J. Ingram (1942- ) -- Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson (1932- ) -- Mae Howard Jackson (1877-1931) -- Mahalia Jackson (1911/12-1972) -- Nell Jackson (1929-1988) -- Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) -- Shirley Ann Jackson (1946- ) -- Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) -- Judith Jamison (1944- ) -- Lucy C. Jefferson (1866-1953) -- Mae C. Jemison (1956- ) -- Eva Jessye (1895- ) -- Beverly Johnson (1952- ) -- Eunice Walker Johnson (19? -- ) -- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) -- Halle T. D. Johnson (1864-1901) -- Helene Johnson (1906- ) -- Norma Holloway Johnson (19?- ) -- Clara Stanton Jones (1913- ) -- Lois M. Jones (1905- ) -- Sarah Garland Jones (18?-1905) -- Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933) -- Virginia Lacy Jones (1912-1984) -- Barbara Jordan (1936- ) -- June Jordan (1936- ) -- Anna Johnson Julian (19?- ) -- Elizabeth Keckley (c. 1824-1907) -- Leontine Kelly (1920- ) -- Florynce Flo Kennedy (1916- ) -- Mae Taylor Street Kidd (? -- ) -- Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) --^ Coretta Scott King (1927- ) -- Eartha Kitt (1928- ) -- Flemmie Kittrell (1904-1980) -- Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919-1989) -- Jewel Stradford Lafontant (1928- ) -- Daisy Lampkin (1888-1965) -- Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923- ) -- Lucy Laney (1854-1933) -- Nella Larsen (1891-1964) -- Catherine A. Latimer (1895?-1948) -- Margaret Morgan Lawrence (1914- ) -- Marjorie Mckenzie Lawson (1912- ) -- Jarena Lee (1783- ?) -- Edmonia Lewis (1845?-?) -- Elma Lewis (1921- ) -- Ida Elizabeth Lewis (1935- ) -- Samella Sanders Lewis (1924- ) -- Abbey Lincoln (1930- ) -- Inabel Burns Lindsay (1900-1983) -- Adella Hunt Logan (1863-1915) -- Audre Lorde (1934- ) -- Josephine Harreld Love (1914- ) -- Ruth B. Love (1935- ) -- Jackie Moms Mabley (1894-1975) -- Jane Ellen Mcallister (1899- ) -- Gertrude P. Mcbrown (1898?-1989) -- Jewell Jackson Mccabe (1924- ) -- Rosalie Rose Mcclendon (1884-1936) -- Mary Eleanora Mccoy (1846-1923) -- Viola Mccoy (c. 1900-c. 1956) -- M. A. Mccurdy (1852- ?) --^ Hattie Mcdaniel (1895-1952) -- Alice Woodby Mckane (1865-1948) -- Nina Mae Mckinney (1912-1967) -- Enolia Pettigen Mcmillan (1904- ) -- Thelma Butterfly Mcqueen (1911- ) -- Carmen Mcrae (1922- ) -- Naomi Long Madgett (1923- ) -- Mary Mahoney (1845-1926) -- Gerri Major (1894-1984) -- Arenia C. Mallory (1904-1977) -- Annie Turnbo Malone (1869-1957) -- Vivian Malone (1942- ) -- Paule Burke Marshall (1929- ) -- Sara Martin (1884-1955) -- Biddy Mason (1818-1891) -- Lena Doolin Mason (1864-?) -- Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1907) -- Dorothy Maynor (1910- ) -- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) -- Louise Meriwether (1923- ) -- Lydia Moore Merrick (1890-1987) -- Emma F. G. Merritt (1860-1933) -- May Miller (1899- ) -- Florence Mills (1896-1927) -- Abbie Mitchell (1884-1960) -- Juanita Mitchell (1913- ) -- Mollie Moon (1912-1990) -- Melba Moore (1945- ) -- Queen Mother Audley Moore (1898- ) -- Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989) -- Rose Morgan (19?- ) -- Toni Morrison (1931- ) --^ Gertrude Bustill Mossell (1855-1948) -- Lucy Ellen Moten (1851-1933) -- Constance Baker Motley (1921- ) -- Joan Murray (1941- ) -- Pauli Murray (1910-1985) -- Ethel Ray Nance (1899- ) -- Nettie Langston Napier (1861-1938) -- Dianr Nash (1938- ) -- Annie Greene Nelson (1902- ) -- Effie Lee Newsome (1885-1979) -- Camille Nickerson (1888-1982) -- Jessye Norman (1945- ) -- Eleanor Holmes Norton (1938- ) -- Oblate Sisters Of Providence -- Odetta (1930- ) Vol. 1 Cont. Nell Irvin Painter (1942- ) -- Rosa Parks (1913- ) -- Mary Parrish (g. Ermine) (c. 1863-?) -- Mary Jane Patterson (1840-1894) -- Georgia E. L. Patton (1864-1900) -- Ethel Payne (1911-1991) -- Carolyn Robertson Payton (1925- ) -- Mary S. Peake (1823-1862) -- Anna Belle Rhodes Penn (1865-?) -- Carrie Saxon Perry (1931- ) -- Julia Perry (1924-1979) -- Dorothy Peterson (c. 1900- ?) -- Ann Petry (1911- ) -- L. Eudora Pettigrew (1928- ) -- Vel R. Phillips (1924- ) -- Annette L. Phinazee (1920-1983) -- Ann Plato (c. 1820- ?) -- Willa G. Player (1909- ) -- Mary Ellen Pleasant (c. 1814-1904) -- Dorothy Porter (1905- ) -- Ersa Hines Poston (1921- ) -- Renee Francine Poussaint (1944- ) -- Georgia M. Powers (1933- ) -- Evelyn Preer (1896-1932) -- Frances E. L. Preston (c. 1840-1929) -- Florence Price (1888-1953) -- Leontyne Price (1927- ) -- Amelia Perry Pride (1858-1932) -- Pearl Primus (1919- ) -- Lucy Terry Prince (c. 1730-1821) -- Nancy Gardner Prince (1799- ?) --^ Ernesta G. Procope (19?- ) -- Barbara Gardner Proctor (1933- ) -- Elizabeth Prophet (1890-1960) -- Mary Ann Prout (1801-1884) -- Harriet Forten Purvis (1810-1909) -- Sarah Forten Purvis (c. 1811-1898?) -- Norma Quarles (1936- ) -- Muriel Rahn (1911-1961) -- Ma Rainey (g. Pridgett) (1886-1939) -- Amanda Randolph (c. 1902-1967) -- Virginia Randolph (1870-1958) -- Charlotte E. Ray (1850-1911) -- H. Cordelia Ray (c. 1849-1916) -- Bernice J. Reagon (1942- ) -- Sarah P. Remond (1826-1894) -- Beah Richards (1926- ) -- Fannie M. Richards (1840-1922) -- Gloria Richardson (1922- ) -- Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861-1943) -- Eslanda Goode Robeson (1896-1965) -- Rubye Doris Robinson (1942-1967) -- Charlemae Hill Rollins (1897-1979) -- Diana Ross (1944- ) -- Wilma Rudolph (1940- ) -- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) -- Betye Saar (1926- ) -- Edith S. Sampson (1901-1979) -- Deborah Sampson (robert Shurtleff) (1760-1827) -- Sonia Sanchez (1934- ) -- Doris Saunders (1921- ) --^ Augusta Savage (1892-1962) -- Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) -- Esther Mae Scott (1893-1979) -- Gloria Scott (1938- ) -- Hazel Scott (1920-1981) -- Mary Ann Shadd (1823-1893) -- Ntosake Shange (1948- ) -- Ella Sheppard Moore (1851-1914) -- Olivia Shipp (o. Porter) (1880-1980) -- Modjeska Simkins (1899- ) -- Althea T. L. Simmons (1924-1990) -- Judy Simmons (1944- ) -- Hilda Simms (1920- ) -- Nina Simone (1933- ) -- Carole Simpson (1940- ) -- Naomi Sims (1948- ) -- Barbara Sizemore (1927- ) -- Norma Merrick Sklarek (1928- ) -- Edith Barksdale Sloan (1940- ) -- Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885-1937) -- Ada Smith (1894-1984) -- Amanda Berry Smith (1837-1915) -- Bessie Smith (1894-1937) -- Clara Smith (1894-1935) -- Lucie Wilmot Smith (1861-1888) -- Mamie Smith (1883-1946) -- Willie Mae Ford Smith (1904- ) -- Mabel Murphy Smythe-haithe (1918- ) -- Valaida Snow (c. 1900-1956) -- Eileen Southern (1920- ) -- Eulalie Spence (1894-1981) -- Anne Spencer (1882-1975) --^ Isabele Taliaferro Spiller (1888-1974) -- Hortense Spillers (1942- ) -- Victoria Spivey (1906-1976) -- Jeanne Spurlock (1921- ) -- Mabel Keaton Staupers (1890-1989) -- Susan Mckinney Steward (1847-1918) -- Ella P. Stewart (1893-1987) -- Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) -- Juanita Kidd Stout (1919- ) -- Niara Sudarkasa (1938- ) -- Madame Sul-te-wan (1873-1959) Vol. 1 Cont. Mary Morris Talbert (1866-1923) -- Ann Tanneyhill (1906- ) -- Ellen Tarry (1906- ) -- Anna Diggs Taylor (1932- ) -- Eva Taylor (1895-1977) -- Susan King Taylor (1848-1912) -- Susan L. Taylor (1946- ) -- Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973) -- Alma Thomas (1891-1978) -- Edna Thomas (1886-1974) -- Lillian May Thomas (1857- ?) -- Eloise Bibb Thompson (1878-1928) -- Era Bell Thompson (1906-1986) -- Louise Thompson (1901- ) -- Adah Thoms (1870?-1943) -- Lucinda Thurman (1849-1918) -- Sue Thurman (1903- ) -- Jackie Torrence (1944- ) -- Geraldine Pindell Trotter (1872-1918) -- Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) -- Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1913) -- C. Delores Tucker (1927- ) -- Tina Turner (1939- ) -- Cicely Tyson (1942- ) -- Susan Paul Vashon (1838-1912) -- Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) -- Mother Charleszetta Waddles (1912- ) -- A(i)da Overton Walker (1870-1914) -- A'lelia Walker (1885-1931) -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- Lelia Walker (1886-1954) --^ Madame C. J. Walker (1867-1919) -- Maggie L. Walker (1867-1934) -- Margaret Walker (1915- ) -- Joan Scott Wallace (1930- ) -- Phyllis Ann Wallace (c. 1920s- ) -- Sippie Wallace (1898-1976) -- Clara Mae Ward (1924-1973) -- Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) -- Dionne Warwick (1940- ) -- Dinah Washington (1924-1963) -- Fredi Washington (1903- ) -- Josephine Washington (1861-1949) -- Margaret M. Washington (c. 1861-1925) -- Olivia D. Washington (1854-1889) -- Sarah Spencer Washington (1889-?) -- Ethel Waters (1896-1977) -- Faye Wattleton (1943- ) -- Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1930) -- Dorothy West (1907- ) -- Doris L. Wethers (1927- ) -- Laura Frances Wheatley (18?-19?) -- Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) -- Ionia Rollin Whipper (1872-1953) -- Eartha White (1876-1974) -- Fannie B. Williams (1855-1944) -- Lorraine A. Williams (1923- ) -- Maria Selika Williams (1849?-1937) -- Mamie Williams (1872-1951) -- Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) -- Edith Wilson (1896-1981) --^ Harriet E. A. Wilson (1827?-c.1870) -- Margaret Bush Wilson (1919- ) -- Nancy Wilson (1937- ) -- Oprah Winfrey (1954- ) -- Deborah C. P. Wolfe (1916- ) -- Geraldine Pittman Woods (1921- ) -- Elizabeth Wright (1872-1906) -- Jane C. Wright (1919- ) -- Josephine Silone Yates (1859-1912). Jessie Carney Smith, Editor. Vol. 3 Has Shirelle Phelps As A Contributing Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Essays on African American women from 1730 with selections representing diverse areas of achievement including business, civil rights, the arts, education, scholarship, and government. Biographical essays of the most famous African American women--Harriet Tubman, Mary McLeod Bethune--appear alongside those of modern black women in their prime: historian Nell Painter, writer Alice Walker, and actress Halle Berry. Narrative biographical essays, edited by noted scholar Jessie Carney Smith, discuss each woman's significant achievements and the public response to those achievements. Many entries contain personal statements from the subjects provided exclusively for this 3 volume series, and all provide biographical data and a list of sources for additional study