ETHAL PAYNE (first black female Journalist in the white house)Ida Bell Wells-Barnett,Carter G. Woodson,Alice walker, Toni Morrison,Sherly Anne Williams,Ernest Gaines,Ida B. Wells,W. E. B. Du Bois,Frederick Douglass,Ralph Waldo Ellison ,Richard WrightI HAVE SOOOOO MANY QUESTIONS I WOULD ASK THEM! LOL Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another- "Toni Morrison"