NEWSWomen’s History Month: Women of colorStudents, left to right,Matthew Walker, Peggy Alexander, Diane Nash and Stanley Hemphill, eat lunch at the previously segregated counter of the Post House Restaurant in the Greyhound bus terminal on May 16,1960. This marked the first time since the start of the sit-in that Negroes have been served at previously all-white counters in Nashville.Gerald Holly, The TennesseanAuthor and poet Maya Angelou, photographed at her home in 2008, has written " A Glorious Celebration" a retrospective of her life with never-before-seen personal photos and a forward by Oprah Winfrey. The book comes out just in time to celebrate her 80th birthday on April 4.Robert Deutsch, USA TODAYElla Baker, official of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, speaks at the Jeannette Rankin news conference on Jan. 3, 1968.Jack Harris, APMonifa Bandele, project director of the Unity Diaspora Coalition, gives a speech on participating in the 2010 census at a Haitian Independence Day celebration at the House of the Lord church in Brooklyn, NY on Jan. 09, 2010. The event was attended by the Unity Diaspora Coalition Campaign as well as the U.S. Census Bureau as part of an effort to encourage communities with foreign-born blacks to fully participate in the upcoming 2010 census.Brian Harkin, For USA TODAYLong-time activist Grace Lee Boggs speaks to a crowd gathered for the Environmental Grantmakers Association conference at the Book Cadillac Hotel in downtown Detroit on Feb. 25, 2014.Ryan Garza, Detroit Free PressMelanie Campbell, president, National Coalition on Civic Participation, speaks to a reporter on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 15, 2015, as a group of civil rights and religious leaders protested the delay of a vote to confirm Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General outside the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky.Lauren Victoria Burke, APCongresswoman Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., is seen in this 1971 file photo. Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during seven terms in the House, died, Jan. 1, 2005, a friend said. She was 80.APLaverne Cox, star of "Orange is the New Black."Richard Shotwell, Invision/APPolitical Activist Angela Davis speaks onstage at the Busboys and Poets' Peace Ball: Voices of Hope and Resistance at National Museum Of African American History & Culture on Jan. 19, 2017 in Washington, DC.Mike Coppola, Getty Images For Busboys And PoetsDirector Ava DuVernay attends the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Outstanding Directors Tribute, Tuesday.Tibrina Hobson, WireImageActivist Alicia Garza attends the Busboys and Poets' Peace Ball: Voices of Hope and Resistance at National Museum Of African American History & Culture on Jan. 19, 2017 in Washington, DC.Mike Coppola, Getty Images For Busboys And PoetsRoxane Gay is a writer whose collection of essays in Bad Feminist explores what the word "feminist" has come to mean today and how attitudes around the term have shaped women's progress.Jay Grabiec/USA TODAYComanche's LaDonna Harris from New Mexico, speaks at the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Sapporo,Japan, July 4, 2008. A gathering of indigenous peoples blamed the Group of Eight's economic agenda for global warming and rising food and fuel prices - the very problems the G-8 leaders plan to tackle at their summit next week.Shizuo Kambayashi, Associated PressIn a Feb. 14, 2008 file photo Dorothy Irene Height sits in front of her portrait inside the "Freedom's Sisters" exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum Center, in Cincinnati. Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died on April 20, 2010. She was 98.David Kohl, APCivil rights leader Dolores Huerta speaks during the 2016 Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Center.Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAYTelevision Journalist Carol Jenkins addresses the audience during the 2017 Athena Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Barnard College on Feb. 10, 2017 in New York City.Lars Niki, Getty Images For Athena Film FestivalAvis Jones-DeWeever, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, addresses an audience of black elected officials, business people and community leaders during the White House African American Policy Forum in Jackson, Miss., June 13, 2012. A number of federal officials from several agencies discussed issues such as nutrition, poverty, housing and home ownership as well as how job creation affect black people specifically.Rogelio V. Solis, APChair of the Commission on Immigration Reform, Barbara Jordan, speaks at the United We Stand America National Conference, Aug. 12, 1995.Anne Ryan, USA TODAYCoretta Scott King, widow of slain civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during an interview at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Jan. 13, 2004. Despite Coretta Scott King's ongoing work to honor her late husband's legacy, eyes inevitably turned to her children Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice when the Atlanta-based King Center for Nonviolent Social Change began looking for its next leader in 1995. Monday is the national observance of King's birthday.John Bazemore, Associated PressWinona LaDuke, an American Indian Activist and former Green Party vice presidential candidate, speaks to a crowd of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) supporters at the Minneapolis Convention Center Feb. 29, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sanders, who has spent the last four days campaigning in Minnesota, is hoping to win the State in the Super Tuesday primary election on March 1st, 2016.Stephen Maturen, Getty ImagesAudre Lorde, poet and breast cancer victim from the POV presentation of "A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde" .Salimah Ali, POVWilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, gives her last State of the Nation speech Sept. 3, 1994, in Tahlequah, Okla. Mankiller, 49, decided not to seek re-election after 10 years as chief of the nation'ssecond-largest tribe.Tom Gilbert, Tulsa World Via Associated PressJanet Mock attends The Build Series to discuss "The Trans List" at AOL HQ on Dec. 1, 2016 in New York City.Chance Yeh, WireImageCarmen Perez speaks onstage during the Women's March on Washington on Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington, DC.Theo Wargo, Getty ImagesPresident of New York State Civil Service Commission Ersa Poston is shown during a women's liberation conference in New York, May 28, 1970.Ed Ford, Associated PressStonewall veteran Sylvia Rivera leads the ACT-UP march past New Yorkís Union Square Park, June 26, 1994. The march was one of two held on Sunday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the riot at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar that erupted in violence during a police raid in 1969. The incident is now considered the start of the gay rights movement. Virtually every reliable account credits Sylvia, a man who prefers the feminine pronoun, with a major role in the riot.Justin Sutcliffe, APAudrey Rowe, an administrator for Food and Nutrition service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, left, discusses the availability of summer food programs while Terri Hollingsworth, the chief administrative Officer with the Delta Regional Authority, listens during the White House African American Policy Forum in Jackson, Miss., June 13, 2012. Hundreds of black elected officials, business people and community leaders participated in the policy meeting sponsored by the White House, exploring a number of critical issues including, nutrition, housing, home ownership, jobs and job development.Rogelio V. Solis, APLinda Sarsour attends a rally to protest the executive order that President Donald Trump signed clamping down on refugee admissions and temporarily restricting travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries in New York City on Jan. 29, 2017 in New York City.Noam Galai, WireImageMadonna Thunder Hawk of the Oohenumpa band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, finished talking to reporters outside federal court in Washington, Feb. 13, 2017. A judge has rejected a request by two American Indian tribes to halt construction of the remaining section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline until their lawsuit over the project is resolved.Susan Walsh, APThis image provided by the Library of Congress shows Harriet Tubman, between 1860 and 1875. A Treasury official said on, April 20, 2016, that Secretary Jacob Lew has decided to put Tubman on the $20 bill, making her the first woman on U.S. paper currency in 100 years.H.B. Lindsley, Library Of Congress Via APAddie Wyatt looks at a framed photo of her friend, slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at her Chicago home on, Jan. 13, 2005. Though the 80-year-old uses a walker to get around these days and leaves the marching to younger folks, she's still involved in improving the world and is focused on inspiring the generations that have followed her to keep fighting for equality.Nam Y. Huh, Associated Press