American Black Women in History

Poetry of 5 African American Women on Straight Up!
out of Brooklyn Part 1







BLACK WOMEN COMPOSERS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC:
 "TOO MANY SONGS UN-SUNG"

Black Women Composers African American Art Songs

• Dorothy Rudd Moore
• Undine Smith Moore
• Gerald Blanchard
• Margaret Bonds
• Daphney Lindsay
• Florence Price

A web site featuring African American Women Artists
The Cora Marshall Online Gallery

Faith Ringold





Some women of the Harlem Renaissance






Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)
To A Dark Girl


Marita Bonner (1898-1971)

Georgette Seabrooke-Powell


Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958)
You


Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)


Nella Larsen (1891 -1964)


Jessie Redmon Fauset (1884-1961)


Mary White Ovington (1865-1951)


Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
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Dorothy West (1907-1998)


Dedicated to the African American Woman