From A-Z: Dynamic Black Women In History was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
1. Where Would We Be Without These Black Women?

2. Alice Walker

3. Anna Tibaijuka (United Nations)

4. Asha-Rose Migiro (United Nations)

5. Audre Lorde

6. Ayana Mathis

7. Barbara Smith

8. Bebe Moore Campbell

9. bell hooks

10. Bessie A. Buchanan

11. Carol Moseley Braun

12. Madame CJ Walker

13. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

14. Cynthia McKinney

15. Dame Eugenia Charles (Dominica)

16. Fannie Lou Hamer

17. Gwendolyn Brooks

18. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia)

19. Gloria Naylor

20. Gwendolyn Brooks

21. Harriet Tubman

22. Ida B. Wells

23. Karen Bass

24. Lorraine Hansberry

25. Mary Church Terrell

26. Mary McLeod Bethune

27. Michaëlle Jean (Canada)

28. Nikki Giovanni

29. Ntozake Shange

30. Octavia Butler

31. Pearl Cleage

32. Phillis Wheatley

33. Robin Kelly

34. Rosa Parks

35. Ruth Simmons

36. Shirley Chisholm

37. Susan Rice

38. Suzan Lori-Parks

39. Toni Morrison

40. Terry McMillan

41. Sonia Sanchez

42. Margaret Walker

43. Rebecca Walker

44. Unita Blackwell

45. J. California Cooper

46. Zane

47. Zora Neale Hurston
