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Epic lives : one hundred Black women who made a difference / Jessie Carney Smith, editor ; foreword by Stephanie Stokes Oliver.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Detroit : Visible Ink Press, ©1993.Description: xvii, 632 pages : portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 081039426X
  • 9780810394261
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 920.72/089/96073 B 20
LOC classification:
  • E185.96 .E65 1993
NLM classification:
  • 92 E64
Other classification:
  • 71.33
Online resources:
Contents:
Marian Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Josephine Baker -- Marguerite Ross Barnett -- Daisy Bates -- Mary Frances Berry -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Margaret Taylor Burroughs -- Mary Elizabeth Carnegie -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Shirley Chisholm -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Bessie Coleman -- Cardiss Collins -- Janet Collins -- Marva Collins -- Annie J. Cooper -- Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten -- Ellen Craft -- Angela Davis -- Juliette Derricotte -- Katherine Dunham -- Ramona Hoage Edelin -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Effie O'Neal Ellis -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Aretha Franklin -- Mary Hatwood Futrell -- Zelma Watson George -- Althea Gibson -- Nikki Giovanni -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Lucille C. Gunning -- Clara Hale -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Virginia Hamilton -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Barbara Harris -- Marcelite J. Harris -- Patricia Harris -- Dorothy Height -- Aileen Hernandez -- Clementine Hunter.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Mae C. Jemison -- Barbara Jordan -- Florence Griffith Joyner -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Elizabeth Keckley -- Leontine Kelly -- Sharon Pratt Kelly -- Flo Kennedy -- Coretta Scott King -- Yolanda King -- Jewel Stradford Lafontant -- Elma Lewis -- Audre Lorde -- Annie Turnbo Malone -- Biddy Mason -- Queen Mother Audley Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Constance Baker Motley -- Pauli Murray -- Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Rosa Parks -- Carrie Saxon Perry -- Leontyne Price -- Ernesta G. Procope -- Barbara Gardner Proctor -- Bernice J. Reagon -- Eslanda Goode Robeson -- Wilma Rudloph -- Gloria Scott -- Attallah Shabazz -- Ntozake Shange -- Althea T.L. Simmons -- Carole Simpson -- Naomi Sims -- Bessie Smith -- Juanita Kidd Stout -- Niara Sudarkasa -- Susan L. Taylor -- Susie King Taylor -- Mary Church Terrell -- Jackie Torrence -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Sarah Vaughan -- Mother Charleszetta Waddles -- Alice Walker -- Madame C.J. Walker -- Maggie L. Walker -- Faye Wattleton -- Ida B. Wells Barnett -- Phillis Wheatley -- Oprah Winfrey.
Summary: After 20 years of research and loving dedication, author Jessie Carney Smith presents this tribute to 100 African-American women of achievement. Their strength, courage, determination, and style have made a tremendous impact in a variety of fields - from aeronautics to civil rights to the arts and entertainment. Many of these women will be familiar to you, but many more are unsung heroes whose stories you will discover for the first time. As Dr. Smith told the Chicago Tribune, "I want people to feel that these are women they can look up to, be inspired by, or remember in some small way."
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) E 185.96 .E64 1993x (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 19410

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-632).

Marian Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Josephine Baker -- Marguerite Ross Barnett -- Daisy Bates -- Mary Frances Berry -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Margaret Taylor Burroughs -- Mary Elizabeth Carnegie -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Shirley Chisholm -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Bessie Coleman -- Cardiss Collins -- Janet Collins -- Marva Collins -- Annie J. Cooper -- Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten -- Ellen Craft -- Angela Davis -- Juliette Derricotte -- Katherine Dunham -- Ramona Hoage Edelin -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Effie O'Neal Ellis -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Aretha Franklin -- Mary Hatwood Futrell -- Zelma Watson George -- Althea Gibson -- Nikki Giovanni -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Lucille C. Gunning -- Clara Hale -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Virginia Hamilton -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Barbara Harris -- Marcelite J. Harris -- Patricia Harris -- Dorothy Height -- Aileen Hernandez -- Clementine Hunter.

Zora Neale Hurston -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Mae C. Jemison -- Barbara Jordan -- Florence Griffith Joyner -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Elizabeth Keckley -- Leontine Kelly -- Sharon Pratt Kelly -- Flo Kennedy -- Coretta Scott King -- Yolanda King -- Jewel Stradford Lafontant -- Elma Lewis -- Audre Lorde -- Annie Turnbo Malone -- Biddy Mason -- Queen Mother Audley Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Constance Baker Motley -- Pauli Murray -- Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Rosa Parks -- Carrie Saxon Perry -- Leontyne Price -- Ernesta G. Procope -- Barbara Gardner Proctor -- Bernice J. Reagon -- Eslanda Goode Robeson -- Wilma Rudloph -- Gloria Scott -- Attallah Shabazz -- Ntozake Shange -- Althea T.L. Simmons -- Carole Simpson -- Naomi Sims -- Bessie Smith -- Juanita Kidd Stout -- Niara Sudarkasa -- Susan L. Taylor -- Susie King Taylor -- Mary Church Terrell -- Jackie Torrence -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Sarah Vaughan -- Mother Charleszetta Waddles -- Alice Walker -- Madame C.J. Walker -- Maggie L. Walker -- Faye Wattleton -- Ida B. Wells Barnett -- Phillis Wheatley -- Oprah Winfrey.

After 20 years of research and loving dedication, author Jessie Carney Smith presents this tribute to 100 African-American women of achievement. Their strength, courage, determination, and style have made a tremendous impact in a variety of fields - from aeronautics to civil rights to the arts and entertainment. Many of these women will be familiar to you, but many more are unsung heroes whose stories you will discover for the first time. As Dr. Smith told the Chicago Tribune, "I want people to feel that these are women they can look up to, be inspired by, or remember in some small way."

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