1. Where Would We Be Without These Black Women? 2. Alice Walker 4. Anna Tibaijuka (United Nations) 5. Asha-Rose Migiro (United Nations) 6. Audre Lorde 7. Ayana Mathis 9. Barbara Smith 10. Bebe Moore Campbell 11. bell hooks 12. Bessie A. Buchanan 13. Carol Moseley Braun 15. Madame CJ Walker 16. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 19. Cynthia McKinney 20. Dame Eugenia Charles (Dominica) 21. Fannie Lou Hamer 22. Gwendolyn Brooks 25. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia) 26. Gloria Naylor 27. Gwendolyn Brooks 28. Harriet Tubman 29. Ida B. Wells 31. Karen Bass 32. Lorraine Hansberry 33. Mary Church Terrell 34. Mary McLeod Bethune 36. Michaëlle Jean (Canada) 38. Nikki Giovanni 39. Ntozake Shange 40. Octavia Butler 41. Pearl Cleage 42. Phillis Wheatley 43. Robin Kelly 44. Rosa Parks 45. Ruth Simmons 46. Shirley Chisholm 48. Susan Rice 49. Suzan Lori-Parks 51. Toni Morrison 52. Terry McMillan 53. Sonia Sanchez 55. Margaret Walker 56. Rebecca Walker 57. Unita Blackwell 58. J. California Cooper 59. Zane 60. Zora Neale Hurston