Black Women’s History
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was born Zelda Jackson in a small town outside...
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman in the U.S. Army to command an otherwise all‑white...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (born Elizabeth Jennings, c. late 1820s–June 5, 1901) was a Black schoolteacher, church organist, and civil-rights pioneer in New York City. More than a century before Rosa Parks’s...
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary...
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in...
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings.” Rosa Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the civil rights...
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage...
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age...
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and symbol of Black womanhood. Truth was born into...
Ranavalona III was the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from July 30, 1883,...
Nancy Green known as the Pancake Queen, was a storyteller, cook, activist, and the first of several African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark as “Aunt Jemima.” The famous Aunt...
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…
