Edition |
Revised and enlarged edition. |
Description |
171 pages : portraits ; 29 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
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"A 10th anniversary celebration." --Half T.p. |
Contents |
Editor's note -- They came to stay / Maya Angelou -- Preface -- Portraits. Rosa Parks -- Janet Collins -- Eva Jessye -- Bertha Knox Gilkey -- Alice Walker -- Cicely Tyson -- Katherine Dunham -- Barbara Jordan -- Toni Morrison -- Althea T. L. Simmons -- Maxine Waters -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Norma Merrick Sklarek -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Leontyne Price -- Althea Gibson -- Ernestine Anderson -- Unita Blackwell -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Clara McBride Hale -- Ellen Stewart |
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-- Beah Richards -- Carrie Saxon Perry -- Charlyne Hunter-Gault -- Constance Baker Motley -- Oprah Winfrey -- Sonia Sanchez -- Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers -- Daisy Bates -- Marva Nettles Collins -- Lena Horne -- Willie Mae For Smith -- Coretta Scott King -- Jewell Jackson McCabe -- Mary Frances Berry -- Ruby Middleton Forsythe -- Jean Blackwell Hutson -- Anna Arnold Hedgeman -- Johnnie Tillman -- Myrlie Evers -- Faye Wattleton -- Angela Yvonne Davis -- Betty Shabazz |
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-- Queen Mother Audley Moore -- Harriet Elizabeth Byrd -- Shirley Chisholm -- Wyomia Tyus -- Ruby Dee -- Leontine T. C. Kelly -- Margaret Walker Alexander -- Rachel Robinson -- Gloria Dean Randle Scott -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Jackie Torrence -- Autherine Lucy -- Alexa Canady -- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke -- Dorothy Irene Height -- Sarah Vaughan -- Josephine Riley Matthews -- Niara Sudarkasa -- Wilma Rudolph -- Odetta -- Cora Lee Johnson -- Eleanor |
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Holmes Norton -- Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell -- Sherian Grace Cadoria -- Priscilla L. Williams -- Leah Chase -- Elizabeth Cotten -- Marian Anderson -- Winson and Dovie Hudson -- Maya Angelou -- Septima Poinsette Clark. |
Subject |
African American women -- Portraits.
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African American women -- Interviews.
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Role models -- United States.
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African American women -- Portraits.
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Added Author |
Summers, Barbara, 1944-
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Angelou, Maya.
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ISBN |
1556708882 cloth |
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1556709234 paper |
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1556700636 cloth |
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155670092X paper |
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1556709749 |
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