Includes index. Black and white photos with interviews of 75 prominent black American women. 14,830.

Rosa Parks -- Janet Collins -- Eva Jessye -- Bertha Knox Gilkey -- Alice Walker -- Cicely Tyson -- Katherine Dunham -- Barbara Jordan -- Toni Morrison -- Althea T.L. Simmons -- Maxine Waters -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Norma Merrick Sklarek -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Leontyne Price -- Althea Gibson -- Ernestine Anderson -- Unita Blackwell -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Clara McBride Hale -- Ellen Stewart -- Beah Richards -- Carrie Saxon Perry -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Constance Baker Motley -- Oprah Winfrey -- Sonia Sanchez -- Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers -- Daisy Bates -- Marva Nettles Collins -- Lena Horne -- Willie Mae Ford Smith -- Coretta Scott King -- Jewell Jackson McCabe -- Mary Frances Berry -- Ruby Middleton Forsythe -- Jean Blackwell Hutson -- Anna Arnold Hedgeman Johnnie Tillmon -- Myrlie Evers -- Faye Wattleton -- Angela Yvonne Davis -- Betty Shabazz -- Queen Mother Audley Moore -- Harriet Elizabeth Byrd -- Shirley Chisholm -- Wyomia Tyus -- Ruby Dee -- Leontine T.C. Kelly -- Margaret Walker Alexander -- Rachel Robinson -- Gloria Dean Randle Scott -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Jackie Torrence -- Autherine Lucy -- Alexa Canady -- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke -- Dorothy Irene Height -- Sarah Vaughan -- Josephine Riley Matthews -- Niara Sudarkasa -- Wilma Rudolph -- Odetta -- Cora Lee Johnson -- Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell -- Sherian Grace Cadoria -- Priscilla L. Williams -- Leah Chase -- Elizabeth Cotten -- Marian Anderson -- Winson and Dovie Hudson -- Maya Angelou -- Septima Poinsette Clark.