100 Black Women You Should Know - But Might Not

1. Fannie Lou Hamer
2. Daisy Bates
3. Mamie Till
4. Mary McLeod Bethune
5. Marjorie Lee Browne
6. Shirley Chisholm
7. Dorothy Height
8. bell hooks
9. Mae C. Jemison
10. Ntozake Shange
11. Sojourner Truth
12. Maggie Lena Walker
13. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
14. Elizabeth Key
15. Ella Baker
16. Ruby Bridges
17. Septima Clark
18. Harriet Tubman
19. Zora Neale Hurston
20. Bessie Coleman
21. Reatha Clark King
22. Anne Moody
23. Barbara Johns
24. Annie Easley
25. Mary Louise Baldwin
26. Cheryl Shavers
27. May Edward Chinn
28. Maya Angelou
29. Marjorie Stewart Joyner
30. Drusilla Dunjee Houston
31. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
32. Ella Fitzgerald
33. Shirley Ann Jackson
34. Dr. Mamie Clark
35. Ellen Smith Craft
36. Pearl Bailey
37. Edith Sampson
38. Gwendolyn Brooks
39. Octavia Butler
40. Lorraine Hansberry
41. June Bacon-Bearcey
42. Marian Anderson
43. Cicely Tyson
44. Cathay Williams
45. Billie Holiday
46. Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson
47. Sarah S. Goode
48. Barbara Jordan
49. Rosa Parks
50. Dorothy E. Davis
51. Frances Harper
52. Cinque
53. Catherine Burks-Brooks
54. Autherine Lucy
55. Linda Brown Smith
56. Melba Pattillo Beals
57. Glenda Gaither Davis
58. Mae Francis Moultrie
59. Effa Manley
60. Elizabeth Eckford
61. Gloria Ray Karlmark
62. Ethel Louise Belton Brown
63. Diane Nash
64. Connie Morgan
65. Bernice Johnson Reagon
66. Ruby Doris Smith Robinson
67. Nina Simone
68. Carlotta Walls Lanier
69. Unita Blackwell
70. Prathia Hall
71. Eleanor Holmes Norton
72. Kathleen Neal Cleaver
73. Dorothy Cotton
74. Angela Davis
75. June Jordan
76. Dorothy Geraldine Counts
77. Elizabeth Keckly
78. Toni Stone
79. Myrlie Evers Williams
80. Claudette Colvin
81. Rita Dove
82. Alice Walker
83. Minnijean Brown
84. Margaret Burroughs
85. Elaine Brown
86. Thelma Mothershed
87. Patricia Bath
88. Janet Emerson Bashen
89. Condoleeza Rice
90. Toni Morrison
91. Mari Evans
92. Carol Moseley Braun
93. Patricia Roberts Harris
94. Dorothy Dandridge
95. Ruby Dee
96. Gertrude Koen
97. Joyce Bryant
98. Lena Horn
99. Josephine Baker 
100. Charlotte E. Ray