Famous and Notable Black Women Posters, “N...-O...-”
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and theme decor.

Diane Nash
Nichelle Nichols

Jessye Norman
Queen Nzinga

Diane Nash: The Fire of the Civil Rights Movement

Diane Nash
b. 5-15-1938; Chicago, Illinois

Diane Nash helped found and was the strategist of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. She also worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nichelle Nichols
b. 12-28-1932; Robbins, Illinois

Actress, singer and voice artist Nichelle Nichols is most remembered as communications officer Lieutenant Nyota Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise in the popular Star Trek television series. A black woman in an authorative role was unpredented in the 1960s and both astronaut Mae Jemison and actress Whoopi Goldberg have cited Nichols as inspiration and encouragement for their career paths.

Nichols also sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting.

Jessye Norman
b. 9-15-1945; Augusta, GA

Dramatic soprano Jessye Norman is a four-time Grammy Award winning opera singer.

Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande
b. c. 1583; current day Angola
d. 12-17-1663; Matamba

Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms was a West African warrior queen, who used her charisma and feminine charm to defeat the Portuguese.

• Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595

Michelle Obama
née Robinson
b. 1-17-1964; Chicago, Illinois

Michelle Obama, the wife of Barak Obama, is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Mrs. Obama has employed her position to focus attention on reversing the trend of childhood obesity and encouraged healthy eating by planting the first White House vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt served as First Lady.

Mrs. Obama is also a lawyer, graduating from Princeton and Harvard Law School, and a mother.

Odetta
b. 12-31-1930; Birmingham, AL
d. 12-2-2008; NYC

Singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, Odetta, is often referred to as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement”. She described herself as being “one of the privates in a very big army.”

• Odetta at Amazon