Amanda America Dickson
Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America.
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Dr Flemmie Pansy Kittrell
Globetrotting African-American nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
bell hooks
As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality.
Dorothy Masuku
South African singer, composer and a hero of the struggle
Aretha Franklin
The “Queen of Soul”, twice named the greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone
Sibongile Khumalo
South Africa’s divine diva
Herschelle Sullivan Challenor
Civil Rights organizer
Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum
In April 2002 Beverly Daniel Tatum, dean of the college and acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, was named Spelman College’s ninth president.
Cornelia Oatman
In the 1970s, Cornelia Oatman filed a federal lawsuit against the Augusta, Georgia sheriff, jailer, and judge alleging civil rights violations in the death of her son.
Tina McElroy Ansa
Novelist, journalist, essayist, and short-story writer