Portrait of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune , civil rights activist and president and founder of Bethune Cookman College, ca.1920s.
American civil rights activist Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher signing the Register of Attorneys, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 1, 1952.
Mrs Daisy E Lampkin, Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People holding an Anti-Lynching Poster, New York, New...
Portrait of American Civil Rights activist Ella Baker , the NAACP Hatfield representative, as she sits behind a desk covered with paperwork,...
Nannie Helen Burroughs, was an African-American educator and civil rights activist, Washington DC, 1930.
An albumen carte de viste portrait of abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth, Detroit, Michigan, 1864. The caption for the image...
American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956.
Former United States First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and educator and Civil Rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, 1937.
American abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery by marrying a free man and led many other slaves to safety using the abolitionist...
American Civil Rights and Women's Suffrage activist and journalist Mary Church Terrell , late 19th century.
Portrait of American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet Angelina Weld Grimke . The image appears in Robert Thomas Kerlin's book 'Negro Poets...
Margaret Murray Washington , the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, activist and suffragist, 1901.
Daisy Lampkin pointing to globe, surrounded by other women in Pittsburgh Courier offices with illustration of Robert L. Vann on wall in background,...
Ida Wells-Barnett, born a slave, she became a school teacher after abolition, 19th century, New York, Schomburg Center.
Planning for the National Association of Colored Women convention, Los Angeles, California, US, 1 August 1952; center, African-American civil rights...
Portrait of American educator Janie Porter Barrett who helped establish the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, circa 1922.
Illustration portrait of African American journalist and suffragist Lucy Wilmot Smith , late nineteenth century.
Black and white photograph of Nannie H Burroughs, an African-American educator, orator, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist and...
Engraved portrait of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper from The Underground Railroad by William Still. Harper was a writer and a poet with many works...
Opened by Nannie Helen Burroughs in 1909, the National Training School for Women and Girls taught African American females vocational skills, Latin...
Hallie Quinn Brown, 1849-1949, African American Educator, Writer and Activist, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Cabinet Card, Fred S Biddle, 1880s.
