Black Women’s History
“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded...
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963 and the university’s first African American graduate. She was...
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African American conjoined twins who...
[dropcap size=small]L[/dropcap]ucy Terry Prince, known as Lucy Terry, (c. 1730–1821) was brought to Rhode Island from Africa. Her...
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator, known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her commitment to giving African Americans a better life. Bethune was appointed a...
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and...
Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman and civil-rights pioneer whose 1946 challenge to segregation at the...
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. Two women were identified in the court records as Black; the...
Gertrude Emily Hicks Bustill Mossell was an African-American author, journalist, and teacher. The daughter of Charles and Emily...
Kimpa Vita, also known as Dona Beatriz, was a Kongo prophetess and the founder of Antonianism, a Christian movement...
Lena Horne was a trailblazing American entertainer whose career as a singer, actress, and dancer stretched across seven decades, tracing a path from Harlem’s Cotton Club chorus line to international stages...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
