Examines the lives and history surrounding the women leaders of the Civil Rights movement, including Ida B. Wells, Dorothy Height, Septima Clark, and more.

Introduction: unsung heroines -- Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching -- Dorothy Height and the National Council of Negro Women -- Septima Clark and the citizenship schools -- The women of the Montgomery bus boycott -- Daisy Bates and school desegregation -- Ella Baker, the spiritual leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.