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Epic lives : one hundred Black women who made a difference / Jessie Carney Smith, editor ; foreword by Stephanie Stokes Oliver.

Contributor(s): Smith, Jessie Carney, 1930-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Detroit : Visible Ink Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: xvii, 632 pages : portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 081039426XSubject(s): African American women -- BiographyDDC classification: 920.72/089/96073 | B LOC classification: E185.96 | .E65 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-632).Local Note: One copy is from the Glenmary Research Center Library.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
Marian Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Josephine Baker -- Marguerite Ross Barnett -- Daisy Bates -- Mary Frances Berry -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Margaret Taylor Burroughs -- Mary Elizabeth Carnegie -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Shirley Chisholm -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Bessie Coleman -- Cardiss Collins -- Janet Collins -- Marva Collins -- Annie J. Cooper -- Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten -- Ellen Craft -- Angela Davis -- Juliette Derricotte -- Katherine Dunham -- Ramona Hoage Edelin -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Effie O'Neal Ellis -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Aretha Franklin -- Mary Hatwood Futrell -- Zelma Watson George -- Althea Gibson -- Nikki Giovanni -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Lucille C. Gunning -- Clara Hale -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Virgina Hamilton -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Barbara Harris -- Marcelite J. Harris -- Patricia Harris -- Dorothy Height -- Aileen Hernandez -- Clementine Hunter.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Mae C. Jemison -- Barbara Jordan -- Florence Griffith Joyner -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Elizabeth Keckley -- Leontine Kelly -- Sharon Pratt Kelly -- Flo Kennedy -- Coretta Scott King -- Yolanda King -- Jewel Stradford <afontant -- Elma Lewis -- Audre Lorde -- Annie Turnbo Malone -- Biddy Mason -- Queen Mother Audley Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Constance Baker Motley -- Pauli Murray -- Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Rosa Parks -- Carrie Saxon Perry -- Leontyne Price -- Ernesta G. Procope -- Barbara Gardner Proctor -- Bernice J. Reagon -- Eslanda Goode Robeson -- Wilma Rudloph -- Gloria Scott -- Attallah Shabazz -- Ntozake Shange -- Althea T. L. Simmons -- Carole Simpson -- Naomi Sims -- Bessie Smith -- Juanita Kidd Stout -- Niara Sudarkasa -- Susan L. Taylor -- Susie King Taylor -- Mary Church Terrell -- Jackie Torrence -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Sarah Vaughan -- Mother Charleszetta Waddles -- Alice Walker -- Madame C. J. Walker -- Maggie L. Walker -- Faye Wattleton -- Ida B. Wells Barnett -- Phillis Wheatley -- Oprah Winfrey.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Reference Reference John Bulow Campbell Library Reference E185.96 .E65 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 0182800780872
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West E185.96 .E65 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 0182902385315

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-632).

Marian Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Josephine Baker -- Marguerite Ross Barnett -- Daisy Bates -- Mary Frances Berry -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Margaret Taylor Burroughs -- Mary Elizabeth Carnegie -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Shirley Chisholm -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Bessie Coleman -- Cardiss Collins -- Janet Collins -- Marva Collins -- Annie J. Cooper -- Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten -- Ellen Craft -- Angela Davis -- Juliette Derricotte -- Katherine Dunham -- Ramona Hoage Edelin -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Effie O'Neal Ellis -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Aretha Franklin -- Mary Hatwood Futrell -- Zelma Watson George -- Althea Gibson -- Nikki Giovanni -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Lucille C. Gunning -- Clara Hale -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Virgina Hamilton -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Barbara Harris -- Marcelite J. Harris -- Patricia Harris -- Dorothy Height -- Aileen Hernandez -- Clementine Hunter.

Zora Neale Hurston -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Mae C. Jemison -- Barbara Jordan -- Florence Griffith Joyner -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Elizabeth Keckley -- Leontine Kelly -- Sharon Pratt Kelly -- Flo Kennedy -- Coretta Scott King -- Yolanda King -- Jewel Stradford <afontant -- Elma Lewis -- Audre Lorde -- Annie Turnbo Malone -- Biddy Mason -- Queen Mother Audley Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Constance Baker Motley -- Pauli Murray -- Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Rosa Parks -- Carrie Saxon Perry -- Leontyne Price -- Ernesta G. Procope -- Barbara Gardner Proctor -- Bernice J. Reagon -- Eslanda Goode Robeson -- Wilma Rudloph -- Gloria Scott -- Attallah Shabazz -- Ntozake Shange -- Althea T. L. Simmons -- Carole Simpson -- Naomi Sims -- Bessie Smith -- Juanita Kidd Stout -- Niara Sudarkasa -- Susan L. Taylor -- Susie King Taylor -- Mary Church Terrell -- Jackie Torrence -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Sarah Vaughan -- Mother Charleszetta Waddles -- Alice Walker -- Madame C. J. Walker -- Maggie L. Walker -- Faye Wattleton -- Ida B. Wells Barnett -- Phillis Wheatley -- Oprah Winfrey.

One copy is from the Glenmary Research Center Library.

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