"An historical chronology of eleven interesting and determined black female journalists."
--Washington Times
University of Kentucky Web Site, January, 2001
Summary
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.
