Black Women’s History
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
“Marie Couvent was the first [Black] woman to set the example of an enlightened charity, and that for...
“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who was the first African-American designer to open her own shop on Broadway in...
“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back...
Olive Elaine Morris was a Black-British community leader and political activist, who campaigned for racial, gender and social equality,...
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an African-American athlete who in 1960 became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympic Games. Rudolph became...
Three African‑Caribbean women on St. Croix stood at the forefront of a mass insurrection against the Danish government,...
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific...
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a child bride. She was renamed Sally Smith in the United States after arriving...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s...
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feelings is as vast as...
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…
