Forty brave women, forty bold women, forty women who thought outside of the box, forty women who changed the world. “In a society where being black and female meant being an outsider or sometimes invisible, these women dared to go after what they wanted, to demand what they deserved. Some of them were reluctant leaders, while others were not even conscious of their bravery, but their legacies live on to pave the way for more of us to follow. Many of them didn’t set out to be pioneers, but all of them were, and we can look to each one of them for inspiration.”
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History was written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison and published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers.