Great African-American women

Marian Anderson

Maya Angelou

Evelyn Ashford

Pearl Bailey

Maria Louise Baldwin

Janie Porter Barrett

Kathleen Battle

Mary McLeod Bethune

Jane M. Bolin

Gwendolyn Brooks

Hallie Q. Brown

Nanie Helen Burroughs

Eunice Hunton Carter

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Shirley Chisholm

Johnnetta B. Cole

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper

Fanny Jackson Coppin

Ellen Craft

Dorothy Dandridge

Ruby Dee

Sarah Mapps Douglass

Rita Dove

Katherine Dunham

Marian Wright Edelman

Myrlie Evers-Williams

Crystal Fauset

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Aretha Franklin

Irene McCoy Gaines

Sarah Garnet

Althea Gibson

Nikki Giovanni

Whoopi Goldberg

Emma Azalia Smith Hackley

Fannie Lou Hamer

Virginia Hamilton

Lorraine Hansberry

Elizabeth Ross Haynes

Dorothy Height

Anita Hill

Billie Holiday

Lena Horne

Whitney Houston

Addie Waites Hunton

Zora Neale Hurston

Mahalia Jackson

Judith Jamison

Mae C. Jemison

Barbara Jordan

Florence Griffith Joyner

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Coretta Scott King

Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin

Lucy Craft Laney

Marjorie McKenzie Lawson

Edmonia Lewis

Hattie McDaniel

Mary Mahoney

Victoria Earle Matthews

Cheryl Miller

Toni Morrison

Lucy Moten

Constance Baker Motley

Jessye Norman

Rosa Parks

Leontyne Price

Elreta Alexander Ralston

Charlotte E. Ray

Sarah Parker Remond

Rubye Doris Smith Robinson

Wilma Rudolph

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Edith S. Sampson

Betty Shabazz

Lucy Diggs Slowe

Amanda Berry Smith

Bessie Smith

Maria W. Stewart

Juanita Kidd Stout

Mary Church Terrell

Adah Thoms

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Tina Turner

Cicely Tyson

Wyomia Tyus

Sarah Vaughan

Alice Walker

Madam C.J. Walker

Maggie L. Walker

Dionne Warwick

Ethel Waters

Maxine Waters

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Phillis Wheatley

Vanessa L. Williams

Oprah Winfrey

Lynette Woodward

Other great African-American women.