An illustrated biographical compilation of over fifty African American women from the 1700s through to the present day.

Published in collaboration with curators from Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Includes index.

Ruby Bridges --Marian Anderson -- Althea Gibson -- Toni Morrison -- Michelle Obama -- Sojourner Truth -- Bessie Coleman -- Nina Simone -- Ida B. Wells -- Barbara Jordan -- Aretha Franklin -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Katherine Johnson -- Shirley Chisholm -- Lena Horne -- Wilma Rudolph -- Faith Ringgold -- Madam C. J. Walker -- Diana Ross -- Augusta Fells Savage -- Condoleeza Rice -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ibtihaj Muhammad -- Ann Lowe -- Ntozake Shange -- Carla Hayden -- Sheryl Swoopes -- Dorothy Irene Height -- Misty Copeland -- Angela Davis -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Serena Williams -- Phillis Wheatley -- Rosa Parks -- Leontyne Price -- Harriet Tubman -- Ruby Dee -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Mae C. Jemison -- Susie King Taylor -- Loretta Lynch -- Maya Angelou -- Beyoncé Knowles-Carter -- Simone Biles -- Ava DuVernay -- Judith Jamison -- Oprah Winfrey -- Black lives matter -- Learn more about the women of brave. black. first. -- Image credits -- At the National Museum of African American History and Culture -- At the National Portait Gallery -- A note from the author and illustrator -- About the National Museum of African American History and Culture -- Index.