Fifty Black women who changed America
By: Amy Alexander
Publisher: Carol Pub. Group
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Secaucus, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781559724784
Subjects: African American women; Biography
Other titles: 50 Black women who changed America
Description: Examines the lives and work of fifty African-American women who have made significant contributions to American society; presented chronologically from Civil War poet Phyllis Wheatley to Olympic athlete Florence Griffith Joyner.
Notes: "A Birch Lane Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Phillis Wheatley; title: Sojourner Truth; title: Harriet Tubman; title: Ida B. Wells Barnett; title: Mary Church Terrell; title: Madame C.J. Walker; title: Mary McLeod Bethune; title: Zora Neale Hurston; title: Alberta Hunter; title: Bessie Smith; title: Hattie McDaniel; title: Marian Anderson; title: Ella Baker; title: Josephine Baker; title: Dorothy West; title: Katherine Dunham; title: Mahalia Jackson; title: Dorothy Height; title: Rosa Parks; title: Billie Holiday; title: Gwendolyn Brooks; title: Fannie Lou Hamer; title: Lena Horne; title: Ella Fitzgerald; title: Ruby Dee; title: Shirley Chisholm; title: Eartha Kitt; title: Leontyne Price; title: Maya Angelou; title: Lorraine Hansberry; title: Odetta; title: Toni Morrison; title: Audre Lorde; title: Sonia Sanchez; title: Barbara Jordan; title: June Jordan; title: Betty Shabazz; title: Johnnetta Cole; title: Mary Frances Berry; title: Marian Wright Edelman; title: Tina Turner; title: Charlayne Hunter-Gault; title: Aretha Franklin; title: Nikki Giovanni; title: Angela Davis; title: Alice Walker; title: Susan Taylor; title: Whoopi Goldberg; title: Oprah Winfrey; title: Florence Griffith Joyner.