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

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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. In 2024, it got added in Florida, Minnesota, and Indiana. 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.