Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St.Pierre Ruffin, Delilah L. Beasley, Marvel Cooke, Charlotta A. Bass, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Ethel L. Payne, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
- | Author: Rodger Streitmatter
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Feb 24, 1994
- | Number of Pages: 216 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813108306
- | ISBN-13: 9780813108308