African American Women's History in Pictures

Althea Gibson picture gallery, showing the tennis great in photos from newspapers and by the photographer Carl Van Vechten.

Images of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympics track and field champion.

Pictures of Edmonia Lewis, 19th century African American woman sculptor, and some of her work.

Michelle Obama presents her 2009 inauguration gown to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

A collection of images of Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women's rights advocate of the 19th century.

Pictures of Harriet Tubman, underground railroad conductor and advocate of human rights.

Pictures of Maggie Lena Walker, African American business executive and bank president.

African American women in photographs, about 1899-1900, from an album of photographs collected and compiled by W.E.B. Du Bois.

After the Civil War, many institutions of higher learning were founded to serve freedmen (and women). Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia, was one of these institutions. This 1899 photograph by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston shows a co-ed science classroom studying phases of the moon.

Michelle Obama in her inauguration gown, January 20, 2009. The dress was designed by Jason Wu.

A gallery of pictures of women in the civil rights movement.