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WiR redlist index: Notable Black American Women


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This list is based on:

Jessie Carney Smith, ed. (1991–2003). Notable Black American Women. Vol. 3 vols. Detroit: Gale Research.

See the contents of Books 1, 2 here

Biographies edit

Book 1 edit

  1. Matilda Booker (1887-1957), educator
  2. Hilda Andrea Davis (1905-[2001]), educator, educational leader
  3. Katherine Stewart Flippin (1906-[1996?]), educator
  4. Charlotte White Franklin (19?- ), artist, educator
  5. Mary Hatwood Futrell (1940- ), educator, political activist, reformer, organization leader
  6. Marie D. Gadsden (1919-[2012]), educator, government official, organization executive
  7. Phillis "Phyl" T. Garland (1935-[2006]), writer, music critic, journalist, editor, educator
  8. Lucille C. Gunning (1922- ), pediatrician, meical services administrator
  9. Millie E. Hale (1881-1930), nurse, hospital founder, social activist, civic worker
  10. Judia C. Jackson Harris (1873-19?), school founder, race relations advocate, land club founder
  11. Margaret Cardozo Holmes (1898-?), hairstylist, entrepreneur
  12. Lucy C. Jefferson (1866-1953), entrepreneur, clubwoman, civic leader, educator, philanthropist
  13. Marjorie McKenzie Lawson (1912-[2002]), judge, civic activist, journalist
  14. Ida Elizabeth Lewis (1935- ), journalist, editor, publisher
  15. Josephine Harreld Love (1914- ), pianist, arts administrator, musicologist
  16. Mary Eleanora McCoy (1846-1923), philanthropist, clubwoman
  17. Lydia Moore Merrick (1890-1987), journal founder, editor
  18. Annie Greene Nelson (1902-[1993?]), writer, nurse, educator
  19. L. Eudora Pettigrew (1928- ), educator
  20. Ersa Hines Poston (1921-[2009]), government official
  21. Renee Francine Poussaint (1944- ), broadcast journalist
  22. Amelia Perry Pride (1858-1932), educator, institution founder
  23. Esther Mae Scott (1893-1979), musician
  24. Olivia Shipp (O. Porter) (1880-1980), musician, organization founder
  25. Judy Simmons (1944- ), poet, journalist, editor, singer, pianist
  26. Edith Barksdale Sloan (1940-[2012]), politician, lawyer
  27. Lillian May Thomas (1857-?), journalist, social reformer, women's rights activist
  28. Jackie Torrence (1944- ), storyteller
  29. Joan Scott Wallace (1930- ), social scientist, educator, government official
  30. Laura Frances Wheatley (18?-19?), educator, social and political activist, patron of the arts, writer, entrepreneur
  31. Lorraine A. Williams (1923-[1996]), educator, clubwoman
  32. Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900), writer
  33. Deborah C. P. Wolfe (1916-[2004]), educator, consultant, religious leader

Book II edit

  1. Del Marie Neely Anderson (1937- ), college president, educator, model
  2. Lucie Bragg Anthony (1870-1923), physician, educator, temperance leader, musician, writer
  3. Gwendolyn Calvert Baker (1931- ), administrator, educator, activist
  4. Harriet Ann Baker (c. 1829-?), evangelist
  5. Ruth Gardena Birnie (1884-1956), pharmacist
  6. Mary Ann Campbell (c. 1817-1910), philanthropist, civic worker, church worker
  7. Michele Clark (1941-1972), television correspondent
  8. L. Zenobia Coleman (1901-?), librarian
  9. Anne Margaret Cooke (1907-?), theater educator, director
  10. Ada A. Cooper, lecturer, educator, poet, writer, journalist, missionary
  11. The Delaney sisters / Delaney sisters, Bessie Delaney and Sadie Delany
  12. Addie Whiteman Dickerson (1878-?), real estate broker, reformer, clubwoman, civic and political activist
  13. Mercedes Ellington (1939- ), dancer, choreographer, art director, educator
  14. Sarah Collins Fayerweather (1812-1878), school integrationist
  15. Thelma Thurston Gorham (1913-1991), journalist, organization leader, activist
  16. Mabel Dole Haden ([1909-2007]), lawyer, organization leader, educator
  17. Julia West Hamilton (1866-1958), civic organizer, church leader, clubwoman
  18. Gladys Riddle Hampton (c. 1910-1971), business manager, record company executive, road manager, singer, modiste
  19. D. Antoinette Handy / D. Antoinette Handy-Miller (1930-[2002]), flutist, educator, administrator, radio host, writer
  20. Elaine B. Jenkins (1916-[1999]), entrepreneur, consultant firm founder, educator
  21. Sebetha Lee Jenkins (1939- ), educator, college president, administrator
  22. Patricia Prattis Jennings (1941- ), keyboardist, composer, songwriter, editor
  23. Elayne Jones (1928- ), percussionist, timpanist
  24. Sarah Gibson Jones (c. 1843-1938), educator, school founder, fund-raiser, journalist, poet, lecturer, clubwoman
  25. Rosetta E. Coakley Lawson (c. 1854-1936), educator, religious worker, reformer, club leader, temperance leader
  26. S. Willie Layten (1863-1950), feminist, organization leader, educator, clubwoman, political worker
  27. Shirley A. R. Lewis (1937- ), college president, educator, religious fund director
  28. Charlotte E. Linden (1859-1919), poet, laundress, clubwoman
  29. Eleanor Young Love (1922-[2006]), university administrator, educator, counselor, librarian
  30. Ruby Grant Martin (1933-[2003]), government official, lawyer
  31. Ernestine McClendon (1918-[1991]), actress, talent agent, educator
  32. Viola Harris McFerren (1931-[2013]), civil rights and social activist
  33. Leatrice B. McKissack (1930- ), business executive, educator
  34. Georgia L. McMurray (1934-1992), civic worker, child care advocate
  35. Mary Ella Mossell (1853-1886), missionary
  36. Lillian Adams Parks (1932- ), school superintendent, social activist, civic leader
  37. Dorothy Smith Patterson (1930- ), nurse, teenage parent advocate, humanitarian
  38. Ponchitta Pierce (1942- ), television host and producer, magazine writer and editor
  39. Mary F. Pitts (1860-1914), educator, clubwoman, organization worker, temperance worker
  40. Georgiana Frances Putnam (1832-1912), educator
  41. Charlotta Gordon Pyles (c. 1806-1880), abolitionist, lecturer
  42. Sylvia Lyons Render (1913-1986), educator, researcher, manuscript curator
  43. Linda Johnson Rice (1958- ), publishing company executive
  44. Helen Caldwell Day Riley (1926-[2013]), religious worker, hospitality house founder, nurse, writer
  45. Lucille Mason Rose (1918-1987), civil worker, political activist
  46. Patricia A. Russell-McCloud (1946- ), educator, lawyer, motivational speaker, entrepreneur
  47. Catherine Seal (c. 1874-1930), religious leader
  48. Clara Smyth Taliaferro (1873-?), pharmacist, educator, clubwoman
  49. Carmen Pawley Turner, transportation official, government official
  50. Yvonne Walker-Taylor (1931-[2006)), educator, college president, humanitarian
  51. Gertrude Mae Murphy Ward (1901-1981), gospel singer, road manager, publishing firm founder
  52. Marion Birnie Wilkinson (1870-1956), humanitarian, educator, clubwoman
  53. Ella V. Chase Williams (1852-?), educator, school founder, organization leader
  54. Emma J. Wilson, educator, school founder, missionary, fund- raiser