Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 West Brookfield, Massachusetts – October 19, 1893 Boston, Massachusetts ) was a prominent American abolitionist and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women .

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 Tuskegee, Alabama – October 24, 2005Detroit, Michigan) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement."

Born Araminta Ross 1820 or 1821Dorchester County, Maryland – March 10, 1913 Auburn, New York was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.

Born April 27, 1927 Marion, Alabama  – January 30, 2006 Playas de Rosarito, Baja California )

was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-

American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.Mrs. King's most prominent role may have been

in the years after her husband's 1968 assassination when she took on the leadership

of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement.

Born (January 17, 1964) is the wife of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first First Lady of the United States of African-American heritage.

Born 1797 Rifton, New York – November 26, 1883 Battle Creek, Michigan. She was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.

Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 Adams, Massachusetts – March 13, 1906Rochester, New York) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches every year on women's rights for 45 years.

Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman (January 26, 1892 Atlanta, Texas – April 30, 1926 Jacksonville, Florida ) was an American civil aviator. Popularly known as "Queen Bess", she was the first African American female pilot,and the first person of African American descent to hold an international pilot license.

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century] and beyond the greatest black philanthropist in American history and was once the world's only black billionaire.She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, R&B and Gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked

Franklin #1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time .Franklin is one of the most honored artists by the

Grammy Awards, with 18 Grammys to date, which include the Living Legend Grammy and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy. She has scored a total of 20 #1 singles on the

Billboard R&B Singles Chart, one of which also became her first #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100: "Respect" (1967). "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987), a duet with

George Michael, became her second #1 on the latter chart. Since 1961, Franklin has scored a total of 45 "Top 40" hits

on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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