BOOKS
Boyd, Valerie, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribners, 2002.
Bundles, A’Lelia, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker. New York: A Lisa Drew Book/Scribner, 2001.
Duster, Michelle. Ed., Ida In Her Own Words: The timeless writings of Ida B. Wells from 1893. Chicago: Benjamin Williams, 2008.
Duster, Michelle. Ed., Ida From Abroad: The timeless writings of Ida B. Wells from England in 1894. Chicago: Benjamin Williams, 2010.
Height, Dorothy Irene, Living With Purpose. Washington, D.C.: Dorothy I. Height Education Foundation, 2010.
Height, Dorothy Irene, Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir. New York: Public Affairs, 2005.
Hoose, Phillip, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
WEBSITES
Elizabeth Alexander
Home page of poet, essayist, playwright and teacher Elizabeth Alexander
http://www.elizabethalexander.net/home.html
YouTube video, reading “Praise Song for the Day” at the inauguration of Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH6fC3W3YvA
Lee D. Baker
Dean of Academic Affairs, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African American Studies, Duke University
http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
National historic site and resource center in Washington
http://www.nps.gov/mamc/index.htm
A’Lelia Bundles
Author and journalist A’Lelia Bundles writes biographies about the amazing women in her family: entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker and Harlem Renaissance icon A’Lelia Walker.
http://www.aleliabundles.com/
Dorothy Irene Height
YouTube video posted by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, July 8, 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa0kr42XYk
Zora Neale Hurston
Website of one of the pre-eminent writers of 20th-century African-American literature.
http://www.zoranealehurston.com/
Mae Jemison
Astronaut, physician, scientist, chemical engineer and teacher Mae Jemison in a YouTube video, “Science Literacy on LIVING SMART with Patricia Gras.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4TditrXt8
Lynn Nottage
Official website for award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, whose honors include a MacArthur Foundation“genius” grant and an OBIE Award for playwriting.
http://www.lynnnottage.net/
Leah Ward Sears
YouTube video posted by the Atlanta Press Club, June 2, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chrRI-6aN08