FBI Records: The Vault
Allen, Lillie Belle (ca. 1942-July 21, 1969)
FBI
Records: The Vault
Anderson, Marian (February 27, 1897–April 8,
1993)
Baker, Ella Josephine (Dec. 13, 1903–Dec. 13, 1986)
Ella
Baker Center for Human Rights
Baker, Josephine (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975)
FBI
Records: The Vault
Bates, Daisy Lee Gatson (Nov. 11, 1914 – Nov. 4, 1999)
Little
Rock Central High School National Historic Site (National Parks Service)
Bath, Patricia Era (born Nov. 4, 1942, Harlem, New
York)
Berry, Halle (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966)
Halle
Berry winning Best Actress (Video)
Bethune, Mary McLeod (July 10, 1875–May 18, 1955)
Mary
McLeod Bethune Council House, National Parks Service
Bethune-Cookman
University
1910
Daytona, Florida, federal census
1940
Daytona Beach, Florida, federal census
Over
800 Attend Event Honoring Dr. Mary M. Bethune, Arkansas State Press
(Little Rock), May 11, 1955, 4, 1
Noted
Negro Teacher Succumbs in Florida, State Times Advocate (Baton
Rouge, LA), May 19, 1955, 31
Dr.
Mary Bethune, Educator, Dies, Boston Traveler, May 19, 1955,
38
Mary
Bethune, 79, Educator, Is Dead, New York Times, May 19, 1955,
29
Blount, Bessie Virginia (Nov. 24, 1914 – Dec. 30, 2009)
Borelli, Deneen
Official Website
Black
conservative Deneen Borelli blacklisted from NAACP Convention
Fixation
on Black Victimization (Oct. 2013)
Brown, Willa Beatrice (Jan. 22, 1906–July 18,
1992)
Chesimard, Joanne "Assata Shakur"
Playing
Chesimard with Cuba (New York Post editorial, May 9, 1998)
Castro
defends American militant murderer hiding out in Cuba (South Florida
Sun-Sentinel, May 11, 2005)
Chisholm, Shirley (Nov. 30, 1924 – Jan. 1, 2005)
New
York Times obituary, Jan. 3, 2005
Coleman, Elizabeth "Bessie" (January 26, 1892 – April
30, 1926)
Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood (August 10, 1858 – February
27, 1964)
Davis, Angela (born January 26, 1944)
Edelman, Marian Wright
Fitzgerald, Ella (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996)
Gatson, Daisy Lee
Gibson, Althea (Aug. 25, 1927–Sept. 28, 2003)
Goldberg, Whoopi (born Nov. 13, 1955)
Whoopi
Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress (Video)
Hamer, Fannie Lou (Oct. 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977)
FBI
Records: The Vault
Harris, Patricia Roberts (May 31, 1924 – March 23,
1985)
Height, Dorothy Irene (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010)
Holiday, Billie (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915
– July 17, 1959)
Houston, Whitney (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012)
FBI
Records: The Vault
Hurston, Zora Neale (Jan. 7, 1891–Jan. 28, 1960)
John
Hurston, 1880 Loachapoca, Alabama, census
Zora
Hurston, 1900 Eatonville, Florida, census
John
Hurston, 1910 Sanford, Florida, census
Zora
Hurston, 1930 Westfield, NJ, census
A
Negro Deplores the Segregation Decision, Richmond Times-Dispatch,
Aug. 22, 1955, 12
Rites
Arranged for Z. N. Hurston, Trenton Evening Times, Feb. 7, 1960,
40
Zora Neale Hurston's
Hometown Legacy (Video 6:12 min.)
Zora
Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (Video 2:29 min.)
Jemison, Mae Carol (born Oct. 17, 1956)
Mae
C. Jemison - Mini Bio (Video)
TED
Talk: Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together (Video)
Americans
In Focus: Dr. Mae Jemison (Video)
Johnson-Brown, Hazel
Hazel
Johnson-Brown, pioneering black Army nurse, dies at 83
BlackPast.Org
Jordan, Barbara (Feb. 21, 1936–Jan. 17, 1996)
Joyner, Marjorie Stewart (Oct. 24, 1896 – Dec. 27,
1994)
King, Coretta Scott (April 27, 1927 – Jan. 30, 2006)
FBI
Records: The Vault
Lee, Sheila Jackson
Dem
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Suggests Martial Law to End Government
Shutdown
McDaniel, Hattie (June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952)
Hattie
McDaniel winning Best Supporting Actress (Video)
McQueen, Butterfly (January 7, 1911 – December 22,
1995)
Actress
Butterfly McQueen Is Killed in Fiery Accident (Los Angeles Times,
December 23, 1995)
Butterfly
McQueen (Video)
Mitchell, Juanita Jackson (Jan. 2, 1913-July 7, 1992)
Motley, Constance Baker (Sept. 14, 1921 – Sept. 28,
2005)
Just
the Beginning Foundation
Parks, Rosa (Feb. 4, 1913–Oct. 24, 2005)
Rosa
& Raymond Parks Institute for Self Developement (Official website)
The
Rosa Parks Bus
McGuire, Danielle. It's
time to free Rosa Parks from the bus (Dec. 1, 2012)
Man
who attacked Rosa Parks offers apology (USA Today, March 19,
2006)
Parsons, Lucy Eldine Gonzalez (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942)
Rice, Condoleezza (born Nov. 14, 1954)
Shabazz, Betty (1934-1997)
FBI Records:
The Vault
Smith, Bessie (April 15, 1894 – Sept. 26, 1937)
Biography
Bessie
Smith Sings -- Baby Won't You Please Come Home (1923)
Walker, Sarah Breedlove (1867-1919)
Madam
C.J. Walker - Mini Biography (Video)
Madam
C.J. Walker - Early Life (Video)
Madam
C.J. Walker - Succesful Business Woman (Video)
Madam
C.J. Walker - Political Activist (Video)
Madam
C.J. Walker Biography
Madam
C.J. Walker in the National Archives
Madam C.J.
Walker Official Website
Obituary:
Wealthiest Negress Dead
Wells, Ida B. (July 16, 1862–March 25, 1931)
Ida
B Wells Pt 1 (Video)
Ida
B Wells Pt 2 (Video)
Ida
B. Wells: a Passion for Justice (Video)
Ida
B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice
The
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Ida
B. Wells Biography
Guide
to the Ida B. Wells Papers 1884-1976
Winfrey, Oprah
