Black History Heroes

Bessie Stringfield (1911-1993)


Elizabeth T. Greenfield (1824-1896)

Althea Gibson (1927-2003)

Floryence Kennedy (1916-2000)

Queen Nanny of the Marrons (1686-1733)

Dr. Matilda Evans (1872-1935)

Mamie Johnson (1935-Present)

Jane Matilda Bolin (1908-2007)

Mary Seacole (1805-1881)

Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911)

Dr. Jane Cooke Wright (1919-2013)

Zelda Wynn Valdes (1905-2001)

Eugene Ballard (1895-1961)

Violet Palmer (1964-Present)

Esther Jones (?-1934)

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)

Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886-1954)

Willa Beatrice Brown (1906-1992)

Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1899-1990)

Pauli Murray (1910-1985)

Dr. Alexa Irene Canady (1950-Present)

Sanite Belair (1785-1805)

Sister Rosetta Sharpe (1915-1973)

Maria Stewart (1803-1879)



Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

Miles Davis (1926-1991)

Josephine Baker (1906-1975)

Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928)

Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

Bill Pickett (1870-1932)

Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907)

Viola Desmond (1914-1965)

 http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Woman-Visits-Former-Slave-Cabin-She-Was-Born-in-at-NMAAHC--419180104.html

http://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2017/04/06/library-congress-digitizes-19th-century-photos-black-women-activists-hyperallergic/

https://kathyerskine.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/freedoms-sisters-coretta-scott-king/

http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/04/12/chicago-hs-student-gets-accepted-23-hbcus-offered-300k-scholarships/

http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/guerrilla-black-women-erased#axzz4eFl4UNgC

http://www.southerncultures.org/article/i-train-the-people-to-do-their-own-talking-septima-clark-and-women-in-the-civil-rights-movement/

http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/guerrilla-black-women-erased#axzz4e4VmbBc5

https://www.pinterest.com/cheradair/coretta-scott-king/

http://www.wnyc.org/story/sugar-ray-robinson-tribute/ 


 http://blackhistorymonth2014.com/614/black-women-who-defined-the-civil-rights-movement/


http://mashable.com/2014/11/26/detroit-riots-1967/#D11vP9f8viqh

http://avstop.com/history/blackairlines/womenairlinepilots.htm

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/03/15/black-women-rock-show-commemorates-detroit-riot/99230848/