Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or interna

The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)�

Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Althea Gibson, Rosa Parks, Leontyne Price, Maya Angelou, Shirley Chisholm, 8 more.

Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and

The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one