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Georgia Douglas Johnson
 
Helene Johnson

Lois Mailou Jones

Nella Larsen

Florence Mills
 
Alice Dunbar Nelson
 
Effie Lee Newsome
 
Esther Popel
 
Augusta Savage

Bessie Smith

Anne Spencer
 
A'Lelia Walker
 
Ethel Waters
 
Dorothy West
 



Regina M. Anderson
 
Josephine Baker

Gwendolyn Bennett

Marita Bonner

Gwendolyn Brooks
 
Hallie Quinn Brown
 
Anita Scott Coleman
 
Mae V. Cowdery
 
Clarissa Scott Delaney

Jessie Fauset

Angelina Weld Grimke
 
Billie Holiday
 
Ariel Williams Holloway
 
Virginia Houston
 

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891–January 28, 1960) was an African-American folklorist and author of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

 

Mary Weston Fordham

Mary Weston Fordham (c. 1862-?) may have been born in Charleston, South Carolina, where her only known book was published in 1897: Magnolia Leaves, a collection of sixty-six poems, for which Booker T. Washington wrote an introduction. Except for the names of a handful of relatives (Westons, Byrds, and Fordhams) nothing more is known about Mary Fordham

Angelina W. Grimké

February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958

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