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Monday, March 4, 2013

In Honor of Women's History Month - 100 Black Women You Should Know, But Might Not

 
Fannie Lou Hamer
Daisy Bates
Mamie Till
Mary McLeod Bethune
Marjorie Lee Browne
Shirley Chisholm
Dorothy Height
bell hooks
Mae C. Jemison
Ntozake Shange
Sojourner Truth
Maggie Lena Walker
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Elizabeth Key
Ella Baker
Ruby Bridges
Septima Clark
Harriet Tubman
Zora Neale Hurston
Bessie Coleman
Audre Lourde
Anne Moody
Barbara Johns
Annie Easley
Mary Louise Baldwin
Cheryl Shavers
May Edward Chinn
Maya Angelou
Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Ella Fitzgerald
Shirley Ann Jackson
Dr. Mamie Clark
Ellen Smith Craft
Pearl Bailey
Edith Sampson
Gwendolyn Brooks
Octavia Butler
Lorraine Hansberry
June Bacon-Bearcey
Marian Anderson
Cicely Tyson
Cathay Williams
Billie Holiday
Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson
Sarah S. Goode
Barbara Jordan
Rosa Parks
Dorothy E. Davis
Frances Harper
Cinque
Catherine Burks-Brooks
Autherine Lucy
Linda Brown Smith
Melba Pattillo Beals
Glenda Gaither Davis
Mae Francis Moultrie
Effa Manley
Elizabeth Eckford
Gloria Ray Karlmark
Ethel Louise Belton Brown
Diane Nash
Connie Morgan
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Ruby Doris Smith Robinson
Nina Simone
Carlotta Walls Lanier
Unita Blackwell
Prathia Hall
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Kathleen Neal Cleaver
Dorothy Cotton
Angela Davis
June Jordan
Dorothy Geraldine Counts
Elizabeth Keckly
Toni Stone
Myrlie Evers Williams
Claudette Colvin
Rita Dove
Alice Walker
Minnijean Brown
Margaret Burroughs
Elaine Brown
Thelma Mothershed
Patricia Bath
Janet Emerson Bashen
Condoleeza Rice
Toni Morrison
Mari Evans
Carol Moseley Braun
Patricia Roberts Harris
Dorothy Dandridge
Ruby Dee
Gertrude Koen
Joyce Bryant
Lena Horn
Josephine Baker 
Charlotte E. Ray