Category
page 1African-American suffragists
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Sojourner Truth
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist (1797–1883)
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
American writer
Alice Dunbar Nelson
American writer, activist (1875-1935)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
American publisher, journalist, African American civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor
Mary Ann Shadd
American abolitionist (1823–1893)
Mary Church Terrell
American activist and suffragette (1863–1954)
Sarah Parker Remond
American abolitionist and suffragist (1824-1894)
Mary E. Britton
African-American physician
Nannie Helen Burroughs
American activist (1879–1961)
Margaret Murray Washington
American academic and founder of schools
Fannie Barrier Williams
American activist (1855-1944)

Helen Appo Cook
African American community activist in Washington, D.C.
Mary Jane Richardson Jones
American abolitionist, suffragist, and activist (1819–1909)
Susan McKinney Steward
American physician and writer (1847-1918)
Harriet Forten Purvis
American abolitionist (1810–1875)
Christia Adair
American civil-rights activist and suffragist (1893-1989)
Naomi Anderson
suffragist (1843-1899)
Maritcha Remond Lyons
American educator, civic leader, writer (1848-1929)
Mary Burnett Talbert
American activist
Charlotte E. Ray
American lawyer
Gertrude Bustill Mossell
African-American journalist
Lottie Wilson Jackson
African-American suffragist

Lydia Flood Jackson
American businesswoman, suffragist, and clubwoman

Bettiola Heloise Fortson
African American poet and civil right activist

Irene Moorman Blackstone
African-American businesswoman, clubwoman and suffragette
James Madison Bell
African-American poet, orator, and political activist
Carrie Williams Clifford
American writer and activist
Adella Hunt Logan
American suffragist
Josephine Beall Willson Bruce
American activist (1853–1923)
Anna Simms Banks
First African American woman fully credited delegate at the 7th Congressional District Republican Convention in Kentucky
Victoria Earle Matthews
American missionary (1861-1907)
Maria Louise Baldwin
American educator and civic leader
Sadie L. Adams
African-American suffragette and club woman (1872-1945)