Women of Color and Accomplishment, Fighting for Equality was published in October, 2022 with thirty-one additional portraits and bios of historical African American women of achievement. Here are a few that are in that book. Click on their name to see a bio post.
Chapter Two: Civil Rights
Ida B. Wells
Phillis Wheatly
Lydia Flood Jackson
Mary Church Terrell
Mamie Till-Mobley
Chapter 3 – Building towards Freedom
Anna Douglass
Mary Shadd Cary
Fannie Wall
Maggie Walker
Eartha and Clara White
Coretta King
Chapter 4 – Desegregation
Elizabeth Jennings Graham
Juliiette Derricotte
Josephine Baker
Constance Motley
Barbara Johns
Diane Nash
Dot Counts
Elizabeth Eckford
Ruby Bridges
Chapter 5 – Showing the Way
Anna Mangin
Susie King Taylor
Ella Sheppard
Mary Jane Patterson
Maria Williams
Ida Rollins
Alice Ball
Nina Simone
bell hooks
The book is available in the Marin County Free Library system, Arcadia Public Library system, Martin Luther King, Jr., Academy in California, and Macon, Georgia schools. If you want a copy in your library system, please send me a contact person at your library and I will try to make it happen. Email me at carol@caroljacobsen.com.