Darlene Love
Despite—or perhaps because of—her phenomenal talent, singer Darlene Love was held back for years by producer Phil Spector, who relegated her to background singer roles.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The first woman to be elected head of state in modern Africa
Ernestine Shepherd
American bodybuilder
Gesel Mason
After more than a decade of collaborating with African American choreographers on solo pieces created for her as a dancer, Gesel Mason turned that body of work into a digital archive, “No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers”
Annie Lee Cooper
American civil rights activist
Dr Christine Darden
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.
Deloris Ruddock
Deloris L. Ruddock was one of 855 African American women who served in the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) during the war. Officially known as the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the women called themselves the “Six Triple Eight” with the motto “No Mail, Low Morale.”
Lenora Fulani
In 1988 Fulani became the first woman and first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. She won 225,000 votes, or 0.2% of the November 1988 total.
Lydia Jackson
Lydia Jackson (fl. 1760–92) was a wrongfully indentured Black woman who managed to secure her freedom and leave colonial Canada for Sierra Leone in 1792.
Peggy
One of the hundreds of people of African descent enslaved in Upper Canada in the 1700s and 1800s