Title: Notable Black American women /
Authors: Smith, Jessie Carney, 1930-; Phelps, Shirelle
Publisher: Gale Research,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Women; African Americans; African American women Biography; Noires américaines Biographies.; Vrouwen.; Negers.; African Americans Biography.; African Americans United States Biography.; Women Biography.; Women United States Biography.; United States
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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- ) --^