Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-201) and index.
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