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Zipporah Potter Atkins (1645-1705)
Elizabeth Freeman (1742-1829)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Lucy Foster (1767-1845)
Mary "Polly" Johnson (1784-1871)
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
Jenny Cumfrey Williams (c. 1800s)
Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879)
Susan Paul (1809-1841)
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1907?)
Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894)
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895)
Eliza Ann Gardner (1831-1922)
Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914)
Martha Bailey Briggs (1838-1889)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924)
Mary Mahoney (1845-1926)
Susie King Taylor (1848–1912)
Maria Louise Baldwin (1856-1922)
Pauline Hopkins (1859 - 1930)
Gertrude Wright Morgan (1861-1931)
Coralie Franklin Cook (1861-1942)
Mary Evans Wilson (1866-1928)
Maud Cuney Hare (1874-1936)
Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1878-1968)
Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958)
Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (1889-1933)
E. Alice Taylor (1892-1986)
Mary Cardwell Dawson (1894-1962)
Melnea Cass (1896-1978)
Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai Shek) 1898-2003
Lucy Miller Mitchell (1899-2002)
Mildred Davenport (1900-1990)
Dorothy West (1900-1998)
Anna Bobbitt Gardner (1901-1997)
Dr. Mary Crutchfield Thompson (1902-1985)
Sue Bailey Thurman (1903-1996)
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998)
Muriel S. Snowden (1916-1988)
Dr. Frances Jones Bonner (1919-2000)
Ruth Batson (1921-2003)
Elma Ina Lewis (1921-2004)
Glendora Putnam (1923-2016)
Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
Adele Addison (1925 - )
Esther Hopkins (1926 - )
Michi Weglyn (1926-1999)
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
Dr. Jean McGuire (1931 - )
Doris Bunte (1933 - 2021)
Elaine Denniston (1939 - )
Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941 - )
Angela Davis (1944 - )
Ruth Simmons (1945 - )
Shirley Ann Jackson (1946 - )
Razia Jan (1947 - )
Mimi Jones (1947-2020)
Donna Summer (1948-2012)
Joyce London Alexander (1949 - )
Fernande Duffly (1949 - )
Kay George Roberts (1950 - )
Rev. Liz Walker (1951 - )
Fatima Sadiqi (1953 - )
Gwen Ifill (1955-2016)
Ruth Ozeki (1956 - )
Andrea Cabral (1959 - )
Paula A. Johnson (1959 - )
Indira Talwani (1960 - )
Ruth Carter (1960 - )
Debra Shopteese (1962 - )
Elaine Weddington Steward (1963 - )
Cheryl Coakley-Rivera (1964 - )
Michelle Obama (1964 - )
Chrystal Kornegay (1965 - )
Sabita Singh (1966 - )
Stephanie Wilson (1966 - )
Jhumpa Lahiri (1967 - )
Hauwa Ibrahim (1968 - )
Dr. Nergis Mavalvala (1968 - )
Rocio Saenz (1970 - )
Christina Royal (1972 - )
Pardis Sabeti (1975 - )
Lisa Wong (1979 - )
Vera Mindy Chokalingam (1979 - )
Diana Hwang (1982 - )
Chastity Bowick (1986 - )
Yari Golden-Castano (1988 - )
Christina Qi (1992 - )
Amanda Gormon (1998 - )