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Anna J. Cooper, civil and women's rights activist, author, educator, sociologist, scholar [11] John Anthony Copeland Jr., abolitionist; Patrisse Cullors, civil rights activist, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement [12] [13] [14] Elijah Cummings, civil rights advocate
African American women of the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968) played a significant role to its impact and success. Women involved participated in sit-ins and other political movements such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955).
Although not often highlighted in American history, before Rosa Parks changed America when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in December 1955, 19th-century African-American civil rights activists worked strenuously from the 1850s until the 1880s for the cause of equal treatment.
Parks became one of the most impactful Black women in American history almost overnight when she refused to move to the “colored” section of a public bus in 1955.
Co-founder of Ms. magazine and women's rights activist. Angela Davis, 1944-. Political activist and famous leader in the women's and Black Power movements. Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006. Wife of ...
Height has been called the matriarch of the Civil Rights Movement and often worked behind the scenes. After receiving two degrees from New York University in the 1930s, Height worked for the New ...
Linda Malnati (1855–1921) – women's rights activist, trade unionist, suffragist, pacifist and writer; Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837–1920) – pioneering women's rights activist and suffragist; Eugenia Rasponi Murat (1873–1958) – women's rights activist and open lesbian who fought for civil protections.
This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.