African-American women academics

Nigerian writer (born 1977)

American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)

American mathematician and aerospace engineer

African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)

American politician and diplomat (1924–1985)

African-American mathematician (1924–2023)

American biochemist (1921–2003)

American librarian and 14th Librarian of Congress (born 1952)

American opera singer, educator and writer

American mathematician, educator (1914–1979)

Somali-American writer (1971-)

American artist (b. 1948)

American academic

American economist (1964-)

American historian

American chemist

American operatic soprano (1919-2012)

American chemist

American mathematician

American conductor (1895–1992)

chemist (1907-1969)

American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author

American lawyer, civil rights activist and writer

African American mathematician (1930-1999)

American activist (1855-1944)

psychologist and professor (1915-2018)

American legal and race critical scholar

writer, researcher, teacher

Former mayor of San Antonio, Texas

American academic of African-American studies

American academic (born 1959)

American activist, lawyer and academic

American anthropologist and academic

US environmentalist

one of first two African-American women to gain the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1919-2003)

American academic

American biomedical and chemical engineer, academic administrator and researcher

African-American mathematician (1925-2006)

American civil rights activist and academic

American academic, writer, and lesbian rights activist (1936–2018)

American professor and the mother of Kanye West (1949-2007)

American academic and civic activist (born 1972)

African American photographer and professor (born 1979)

American sociologist and professor

African-American sociologist and civic activist

American temperance activist

American physician and researcher

Historian

African-american feminist scholar and activist

American geochemist and chemical oceanographer

American sociologist

American public health academic

American educator (1883-1961)

American academic

American opera singer

Kiribati poet (1968–2017)

American psychiatrist (1923-2018)

American social activist and college professor (1901–1999)

American dramatist and playwright

US religious historian, activist and womanist