Who are some famous African-American Women who have helped Civil Rights and Women Rights?

Question

significant contributions, can be present day women that are active in the community, doesnt need to be a black woman, can be another ethnicity

Answer 1

Coretta Scott King, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Harriet Beecher Stowe. These are but a few of the brave women who helped to end slavery through courage and perseverence. bell hooks, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison are all contemporary writers who address the issues of racism.

Answer 2

Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Barbara Jordan, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, etc.

Answer 3

Ida B. Wells talked out against lynching and encouraged boycotts and supported self defense.

The Progressive Era produced:
Jane Addams founded the Hull House in Chicago that helpped the poor immigrants in the U.S.

Emma Goldman demanded access to birth control and to refuse sexual advances, even from their husbands.
Margaret Sanger also wrote a column about birth control for women.

Answer 4

"Harriet Tubman was born a slave, she was a tiny black woman but she was brave. She was living to be giving and there's a lot that she gave, she's not a slave in this day and age"

- Run D.M.C.