Glenn L Starks

100 Black Women Who Shaped America

Their Legacy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An introduction to the lives of 100 Black women who have made unique and meaningful contributions to American history and society"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781440881084
• ISBN-10: 1440881081
• Artikelnr.: 69522258

Autorenporträt

Glenn L. Starks

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Timeline Showing the Contributions of Black Women in the United States
List of Entries
Abolition and Suffrage
Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman (c. 1742-1829)
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
Harriet Tubman (early 1820s-1913)
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)
Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)
Politics and Law
Bessie A. Buchanan (1902-1980)
Jane Bolin (1908-2007)
Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
Patricia Harris (1924-1985)
Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Carol Moseley Braun (1947-)
Condoleezza Rice (1954-)
Susan Rice (1964-)
Michelle Obama (1964-)
Kamala Harris (1964-)
Ketanji Brown Jackson (1970-)
Civil Rights and Activism
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (1827-1901)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924)
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987)
Ella Baker (1903-1986)
Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911-2015)
Dorothy I. Height (1912-2010)
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Florynce Kennedy (1916-2000)
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
Stormé DeLarverie (1920-2014)
Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005)
Gloria Richardson (1922-2021)
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
Marian Wright Edelman (1939-)
Claudette Colvin (1939-)
Angela Davis (1944-)
Ruby Bridges Hall (1954-)
The Arts and Film
Edmonia Lewis (c. 1844-1907)
Maria P. Williams (1866-1932)
Emma Azalia Smith Hackley (1867-1922)
Sissieretta Jones (1868-1933)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan (1873-1959)
Evelyn Preer (1896-1932)
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
Augusta Savage (1892- 1962)
Hattie McDaniel (1893-1952)
Katherine Dunham (1909-2006)
Barbara Conrad (1937-2017)
Virginia Johnson (1950-)
Aesha Ash (1977-)
Misty Copeland (1982-)
Music and Entertainment
Ma Rainey (1886-1939)
Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973)
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965)
Big Mama Thornton (1926-1984)
Eartha Kitt (1927-2008)
Diahann Carroll (1935-2019)
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018)
Sports
Alice Coachman (1923-2014)
Althea Gibson (1927-2003)
Mamie Johnson (1935-2017)
Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994)
Dianne Durham (1968-2021)
Serena Williams (1981-)
Business, Law, and Industry
Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907)
Mary Fields (1832-1914)
Cathay Williams (1844-1893)
Charlotte Ray (1850-1911)
Maggie Walker (1864-1934)
Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919)
Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)
Sheila Johnson (1949-)
Oprah Winfrey (1954-)
Ursula Burns (1958-)
Literature and Journalism
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
Lillian May Parker Thomas Fox (1854-1917)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Alice Dunnigan (1906-1983)
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917-2000)
Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)
Gloria Naylor (1950-2016)
Education, Medicine, and Science
Lucie Ann Stanton Day Sessions (1831-1910)
Fanny Jackson-Coppin (1837-1913)
Mary Jane Patterson (1840-1894)
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
Ida Gray Nelson Rollins (1867-1953)
Elizabeth Carter Brooks (1867-1951)
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898-1989)
Dorothy B. Porter (1905-1995)
Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919-2004)
Margaret Strickland Collins (1922-1996)
Gladys West (1930-)
Ruth Simmons (1945-)
Mae Carol Jemison (1956-)
Bibliography
Index