African+American+Women's+History

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African American Women in US History
Students will make a Face Book type page and a quilt honoring the role of African American Women in the forming of this country.

Women
[|Mary McLeod Bethune] 1875 - 1955 [|Mary Church Terrell] 1863 - 1954 [|Fannie Lou Hamer] 1917 - 1977 [|Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks] 1917 - 2000

Women Scientists
[|Susan McKinney Steward] 1847 - 1918 [|Madame C. J. Walker] 1867 - 1919 [|Shirley Ann Jackson] 1945 - [|Miriam E. Benjamin] 1861 - ? [|Patricia Bath, M.D.] 1942 -

Women Poets
[|Phillis Wheatly] 1753 - 1784

Press
[|Mary Ann Shadd Cary] 1823 - 1893 [|Ida B. Wells] 1862 - 1931

Resources
[|African American Biographies]