The contributions of African-American women to education, civil rights, literature, the performing arts, athletics, and other areas are documented in this carefully drawn colouring book. Forty-five illustrations spotlight these notable figures: Coretta Scott King, Oprah Winfrey, Sojourner Truth, Frances E. W. Harper, Katherine Dunham, Barbara Jordan, Mary Eliza Mahoney, Nikki Giovanni, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Toni Morrison, Daisy Bates, Susie King Taylor, Whitney Houston, Mahalia Jackson, Clara 'Mother' Hale, Ellen Craft, Maggie Lena Walker, Althea Gibson, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Ethel Waters, Shirley Chisholm, Marian Wright Edelman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Wilma Rudolph, Mary McLeod Bethune, Madam C. J. Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Ella Fitzgerald, Hattie McDaniel, Constance Baker Motley, Leontyne Price, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Bessie Coleman, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Tubman.
