Streitmatter, Rodger. <br/><br/>
Raising her voice  African-American women journalists who changed history / 
Rodger Streitmatter. 
 - Lexington, Ky. :  University Press of Kentucky,  (c)1994. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Maria W. Stewart : firebrand of the abolition movement --  Mary Ann Shadd Cary : advocate for Canadian emigration --  Gertrude Bustill Mossell : guiding voice for newly freed blacks --  Ida B. Wells-Barnett : militant crusader against lynching --  Josephine St. PIerre Ruffin : driving force in the women's club movement --  Delilah L. Beasley : voice for accommodation and conciliation --  Marvel Cooke : literary journalist of the Harlem Renaissance --  Charlotta A. Bass : radical precursor of the Black Power movement --  Alice Allison Dunnigan : champion of the decline of Jim Crow --Ethel L. Payne : agent for change in the civil rights movement --  Charlayne Hunter-Gault : creator of a human face behind the contemporary black struggle. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813149059 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African American journalists--Biography.<br/>African American women--Biography.<br/>Journalism--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Journalism--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN4872  / .R357 1994