Queen Anacona – “The Golden Flower” (Taino Queen) Nanny of the Maroons – (Maroon Wars; 1720-1739) Marie Jeanne, Claire Heureuse, Ezili Dantó Nanny Grigg - 1816 Barbados Uprising Queen Coziah Harmon - 1872 Coal-Carriers Strike Ti Piggi/Piggy - 1876 Belmanna Riots (Tobago) Queen Mary Thomas - 1878 Fireburn Labor Revolt Elma Francois - Founder, NWCSA (1937 Butler Riots) Gene Miles - 1965 Gas Station Racket (Trinidad & Tobago) Jacqueline Creft - 1979 Grenada Revolution Rhoda Reddock - CAFRA (Trinidad and Tobago) Hazel Brown- Network of NGO’s of Trinidad and Tobago for the Advancement of Women Caribbean Folklore – Legend of Gang Gang Sarah Jenny Slew Elizabeth Freeman (also known as “Mum Bett”) Ellen Smith Craft Carlotta Walls LaNier x Before Rosa Parks Claudette Colvin Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks Lillian Davis Roberts - DC37 Labor Union (NY, NY) Mae Wall - One of the Last Slaves in Mississippi Antoinette Harrell-Miller American Folklore – Voodoo Queens Marie LaVeau Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant Sanite Dede Dr. Rita Pemberton Professor Rhoda Reddock Khafra Kambon Cudjo and Abache “Stagecoach Mary Fields” – USA Minnie M. Geddings Cox - USA Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement Dorothy Height – USA Aba Rebellion of 1929 (or The War of the Women) Madam Mary Okezie -- Nigeria Other Major Figures in the Women’s War The Butterflies (Mirabal Sisters) Dede Mirabel – Dominican Republic All these Women are WOMEN OF THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT
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