Raising her voice: African-American women journalists who changed history

Maria W. Stewart : firebrand of the abolition movement

Mary Ann Shadd Cary : advocate for Canadian emigration

Gertrude Bustill Mossell : guiding voice for newly freed blacks

Ida B. Wells-Barnett : militant crusader against lynching

Josephine St. PIerre Ruffin : driving force in the women's club movement

Delilah L. Beasley : voice for accommodation and conciliation

Marvel Cooke : literary journalist of the Harlem Renaissance

Charlotta A. Bass : radical precursor of the Black Power movement

Alice Allison Dunnigan : champion of the decline of Jim Crow

Ethel L. Payne : agent for change in the civil rights movement

Charlayne Hunter-Gault : creator of a human face behind the contemporary black struggle.