Free to Use and Reuse: Images of African American Women Changemakers

This set of images features African American women educators, activists, artists, and more. Browse more content that is free to use and reuse

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  Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y. Photo by William Gottlieb, 1947. Music Division

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  Katherine Dunham in costume. Photo by Phyllis Twachtman, 1956. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Coretta Scott King at the Democratic National Convention, New York City. Photo by Warren K. Leffler, 1976. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

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  Ella Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y. Photo by William Gottlieb, 1946. Music Division

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  Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign poster, 1972. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Frances E.W. Harper. Frontispiece illustration for "Poems," published in 1898. General Collections

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  Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1964

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  Charlayne Hunter-Gault, head-and-shoulders portrait

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  Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet

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  Susie King Taylor, known as the first African American Army nurse

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  Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.

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  Nannie Helen Burroughs

• Angela Davis

• Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm announcing her candidacy for presidential nomination

• Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, head-and-shoulders portrait

• Rosa Parks. Poor Peoples March at Washingon Monument and Lincoln Memorial

• Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait

• First Negro Nurses Land in England

• The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones

• I sell the shadow to support the substance

• African American woman being carried to police patrol wagon during demonstration in Brooklyn, New York

• Junior normal class of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee

• Portrait of Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Tubman, seated in chair, probably at her home in Auburn, New York

• Phillis Wheatley. Frontispiece & Title Page, Poems on Various Subjects...

• Bust portrait of educator and civic leader, Maria 'Molly' Baldwin

• Elizabeth Carter Brooks with Emma Azelia Smith Hackley (wearing spectacles)

• Hallie Quinn Brown, educator and activist

• Portrait of journalist, Lillian Parker Thomas, standing before studio backdrop

• Portrait of educator Clarissa M. Thompson

• Portrait of educator, Laura A. Moore Westbrook

• Bust portrait of educator and activist, Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944)

• Josephine A. Silone Yates, educator and activist, seated before studio backdrop

• Mrs. Constance B. Motley being sworn in by Mayor Wagner

• Frankie M. Lisenby in cape and hat with YWCA insignia

• Mrs. L.E. Parsons

• Ida B. Wells

• Asst. Law Prof. Patricia Harris, new Ambassador to Luxemburg

• Zora Hurston, beating the hountar, or mama drum

• Marian Anderson and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune at the launching of the SS Booker T. Washington

• Mamie Westmorland, school teacher