Free to Use and Reuse: Images of African American Women Changemakers
This set of images features African American women educators, activists, artists, and more.
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Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y. Photo by William Gottlieb, 1947. Music Division -
Katherine Dunham in costume. Photo by Phyllis Twachtman, 1956. Prints & Photographs Division -
Coretta Scott King at the Democratic National Convention, New York City. Photo by Warren K. Leffler, 1976. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. -
Ella Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y. Photo by William Gottlieb, 1946. Music Division -
Shirley Chisholm presidential campaign poster, 1972. Prints & Photographs Division -
Frances E.W. Harper. Frontispiece illustration for "Poems," published in 1898. General Collections -
Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1964 -
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, head-and-shoulders portrait -
Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet -
Susie King Taylor, known as the first African American Army nurse -
Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. -
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