Mississippi

Meet the Black women making waves in this state—leaders, creators, and changemakers redefining what’s possible.

“My voice is what I think life is, my voice is beauty, my voice is America, my voice is my blackness, my voice is love, my voice is God.” Extraordinary spinto soprano and Prima Donna, Price (1927) is ...

Jessie Maple Patton

Cinematographer, Director, Writer

Wyatt (1924-2012) was the first Black woman to hold an executive position in a labor union.

Margaret Murray Washington

Myrlie Evers - Williams

Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish

Investigative journalist who fearlessly investigated and exposed horrific realities of lynchings in the United States in the 1890s.

Ann Moore Gregory

Owner of Rose Meta House of Beauty in Sugar Hill & A founder of NY's only black owned commercial bank, the Freedom National Bank.

Willa B. Player

Fannie Lou Hamer

"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired".

Mamie Till Mobley

Civil rights Activist and mother of Emmitt Till.

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