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

Mary Burnett Talbert
Susie King Taylor
Mary Church Terrell
Alma Woodsey Thomas

Debi Thomas
Adah Thoms
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman

Mary Burnett Talbert
b. 9-17-1866; Oberlin, OH
d. 10-15-1923

Orator, activist, suffragist and reformer Mary Burnett Talbert, called “the best known Colored Woman in the United States,” was among the most prominent African Americans of her time.

Upon graduating from Oberlin College she became the assistant principal of Union H.S. in Little Rock, AR, and after marriage moved to Buffalo, NY, where her civil rights activities lead her to becoming one of the founders of the Niagara Movement.

Susie King Taylor
b. 1848; Georgia
d. 1912

Susie King Taylor, who learned to read and write in secret, was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia. She was also the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her Civil War experiences, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers.

Mary Church Terrell
b. 9-23-1863; Memphis, TN
d. 7-24-1954

A champion of human rights Mary Church Terrell was friends with Frederick Douglass, gave her support to Susan B. Anthony and was instrumental in the international women's movement. In 1919 Terrell received international recognition at the International Peace Congress in Zurich and at the age of ninety marched, with her cane, in picket lines when Brown v. Board of Education declared segregation unconstitutional.

Alma Woodsey Thomas
b. 9-22-1891; Columbus, Georgia
d. 2-24-1978; Washington, DC

Artist Alma Woodsey Thomas was the first graduate of Howard University’s newly organized art department (1924). In 1972 she became the first African American woman to hold a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

She was also a noted teacher, starting a community arts program that encouraged student appreciation of art.

Alma Woodsey Thomas quote ~
• “Creative art is for all time and is therefore independent of time. It is of all ages, of every land, and if by this we mean the creative spirit in man which produces a picture or a statue is common to the whole civilized world, independent of age, race and nationality; the statement may stand unchallenged.”

Debi Thomas
b. 3-25-1967; Poughkeepsie, New York

Debi Thomas, the 1986 World Champion and Olympic medalist figure skater, is also a physician.

Adah Thoms no commercially available image

Adah Belle Thoms, née Samuels
b. 1-12-1870; Richmond, VA
d. 2-21-1943; BNYC

Adah Thoms cofounded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, was acting director of the Lincoln School for Nurses (New York), and lobbied for African Americans to serve as army nurses during World War I. Her efforts eventully led to the creation of the United States Army Nurse Corps.

Thoms was among the first nurses inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame when it was established in 1976.

• African American Healers

Sojourner Truth
b. c 1797; New York
d. 11-26-1883; Battle Creek, MI

Sojourner Truth, best known as a civil rights activist and suffragist, was appointed to work with a physician at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington in 1865. She nursed African-American soldiers and taught others how to change bandages, wash wounds and make beds.

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Harriet Tubman
b. c 1816-1823; Maryland
d. 3-10-1913

Harriet Tubman, best known as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, was finally able to collect a small pension for her service to the Union during the Civil War having “...acted as a nurse, cook in hospital and spy during nearly the whole period of the war…”.

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Tina Turner,
née Anna Mae Bullock
b. 11-26-1939; Nutbush, Tennessee

Tina Turner is one of the most popular and successful music performers of all time, as well as an actress and songwriter.

• I, Tina

Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis at the Howard Theatre, Washington D.C., Art Print

Sarah Vaughan
b. 3-27-1924; Newark, NJ
d. 4-3-1990

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• Sarah Vaughan bookmark

I Never Walked Alone: The Autobiography of an American Singer

Shirley Verrett
b. 5-31-1931; New Orleans, LA
d. 11-5-2010; Ann Arbor, MI

Mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett was particularly well-known for singing the opera works of Verdi and Donizetti.