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Julia Foote, the first female deacon in the AME Zion denomination (Atlanta University Archives)

Jarena Lee, the first woman officially sanctioned to preach in the AME Church (Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, National Archives for Black Womens History)

Amanda Berry Smith, AME evangelist and African missionary (Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, National Archives for Black Womens History)

Mother Bethel AME Church (Library Company of Philadelphia)

Richard Allen, the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination (Mother Bethel AME Church)

Sojourner Truth, antislavery and womens rights activist (MaryMcLeod Bethune Council House NHS, National Archives for BlackWomens History)

Katy Ferguson, New York City, 1793 (Prints and Photographs Department, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)

Group of contrabands at Cumberland Landing, Virginia, during the Civil War (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Gertrude Bustill Mossell, journalist, author, and feminist (frontispiece, Work of the Afro-American Woman)

The Oblate Sisters of Providence, first order of black nuns, established in Baltimore, 1829 (Marquette University Archives)

Sisters of the Holy Family religious community established in New Orleans, 1842 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Mary F. Handy, a founder and president of the AME Womans Parent Mite Missionary Society (Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, National Archives for Black Womens History)

Rev. Lena Mason, noted AME evangelist (Collier-Thomas Collection)

Rev. Ida B. Robinson, founder of the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, Inc., Philadelphia, 1924 (Collier-Thomas Collection)

Rev. Mary Small, first female ordained by the AME Zion Church as an elder, 1898 (carte-de-visite)

Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph, among the first women to pastor a church (carte-de-visite)

Sarah Dudley Pettey, editor of the Star of Zions Womans Column (carte-de-visite)

Members of the Womans Convention, Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, ca. 1905 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Nannie Helen Burroughs, corresponding secretary of the Womans Convention, Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, ca. 1900 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Sarah Willie Layten, president of the Womans Convention, Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, ca. 1920 (Collier-Thomas Collection)

Students at the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, D.C. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Executive Committee of the Womans Parent Mite Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1915 (Prints and Photographs Department, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)

The CME Connectional Womans Missionary Society at its organization in 1918 (Christian Methodist Episcopal Church)

Young Ladies Missionary Society, Israel Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., 1944 (Clement Price Collection)

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, editor of the Christian Recorder and Voice of Missions, ca. 1900 (Prints and Photographs Department, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)

Harriet Wayman, Rachel Ward, and Sarah Tanner were among the bishops wives who founded the AME Womans Parent Mite Missionary Society (Christian Recorder, December 24, 1891)

Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph with AME Zion delegation at the Third Methodist Ecumenical Conference, held in London, England, 1901 (Florence Spearing Randolph Collection)

Young Vai Woman, Liberia, West Africa. ca. 1914 (frontispiece, Negro Culture in West Africa)

Oyoro Ashanti AME Zion Congregation, West Africa, ca. 1930s (Florence Spearing Randolph Collection)

Rev. Nora F. Taylor, board of directors, teaching staff, and students at the AME Girls Industrial Institute at Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, ca. 1920s (Florence Spearing Randolph Collection)

Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph at the AME Zions mission, Quittah, West Africa, 1922 (Florence Spearing Randolph Collection)

Nora Gordon and the 1895 missionary training class at Spelman Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia (Spelman College Archives)

An outdoor mission school for girls at Ikoko, Congo, ca. 1900 (Daybreak in the Dark Continent)

Native Devil Parade at Vai Village, Liberia, West Africa, ca. 1914 (Negro Culture in West Africa)

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, abolitionist and feminist reformer, ca. 1891 (Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, NationalArchives for Black Womens History)

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, president of the Womans Era Club, ca. 1900 (Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, NationalArchives for Black Womens History)

The First National Congress of Colored Women, held in Atlanta, Georgia, 1895 (Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, NationalArchives for Black Womens History)

The First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, Washington, D.C., 1896 (Mary McLeodBethune Council House NHS, National Archives for Black WomensHistory)

Adella Hunt Logan, pioneering suffragist and NACW leader, ca. 1910 (Adele Logan Alexander Collection)

Ida Wells-Barnett, noted anti-lynching crusader, ca. 1895 (MaryMcLeod Bethune Council House NHS, National Archives for BlackWomens History)

Mary Burnett Talbert, president of the NACW and national director of the NAACPs Anti-Lynching Crusaders campaign, ca. 1910 (Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, National Archivesfor Black Womens History)

Poor housing conditions in the South, ca. 1913 (In Black and White:An Interpretation of Southern Life)

Lucy Craft Laney, principal of the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute (Prints and Photographs Department, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)