Hudson Liberation Bowl - Black Women

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enslaved Afrikan Woman; world famous poet; 1st Black in U.S. to have a book published 1773

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Phyllis Wheatley

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most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad; made 19 rescue missions; led 300 blacks to freedom, despite a $40,000 reward for her capture; freed over a thousand blacks as a spy scout, and soldier during the Civil War; aka "Moses"

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Harriet Tubman

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1st Black woman to lecture against slavery; aka "Pilgrim of God"; most famous speech; "Ain't I A Woman" 1852'

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Sojourner Truth

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Black Woman journalist; published "A Red Record"; documenting lynching in U.S. 1895, co-founded NAACP 1909

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Ida Wells Barnett

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1st Black woman self made millionaire; developed new hair car process and cosmetics for Black women

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Madame CJ Walker

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aka "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" arrested when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery AL 1955; she sparked a 381 day bus boycott until Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional

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Rosa Parks

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1st Black woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives from NY 1968; ran for U.S. President 1972; wrote "Un-bought and Un-bossed"

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Shirley Chisolm

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SCLC activist, widow of Dr Martin L King Jr.

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Coretta Scott King

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entertainer, philanthropist; 1st Black woman billioniare; aka "Queen of Talk Shows"; built $40 million school in South Africa

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Oprah Winfrey

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educator activist, Communist professor on FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list 1970; was acquitted of conspiracy in a courthouse shoot-out in CA 1972; autobiography "With Freedom On My Mind" and "If They Come in the Morning"

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Angela Davis