Category
page 1African-American women activists
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer (1917–1996)
Eartha Kitt
American singer and actress (1927–2008)
Rosario Dawson
American actress (born 1979)
Ella Josephine Baker
African-American civil rights and human rights activist (1903–1986)
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, actress and activist (1909/1912–2006)
Fannie Lou Hamer
American civil rights activist (1917–1977)
Esther Cooper Jackson
Civil rights activist (1917–2022)
Vivian Malone Jones
American activist
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
American activist and author (1946–2025)
Mary E. Britton
African-American physician
Kim Janey
American politician
Alice Marie Johnson
American commuted convict and Trump's "pardon czar"
Ilyasah Shabazz
daughter of Malcolm X
Charlene Carruthers
black queer feminist activist
Ann Nixon Cooper
American activist (1902-2009)
Renita Holmes
American housing campaigner
Kelley Robinson
American community organizer and president of Human Rights Campaign
Bali White
scholar
Tricia Hersey
American poet and activist
Gaylon Alcaraz
community organizer and human rights activist
Camara Phyllis Jones
American physician, epidemiologist, medical anthropologist
Joan Maynard
American artist and preservationist
Aimee Allison
American author, public affairs television host, and political activist