Zuleikha Mayat
South African author and activist who led a life of courage, compassion and integrity
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Nikki Giovanni
Author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including “Black Feeling, Black Talk,” “Blues: For All the Changes” and “Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose”
Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley was a trailblazinglawyer and judge whose contributions to both Black history and women’s history left a permanent mark on American society.
Jessie Daniel Ames
Suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped build the anti-lynching movement in the American South
Jane Horn
She organized 1,000 church and labor union members on a trip to Washington, D.C., to march in support of the Civil Rights Act.
Jean Childs Young
Jean Childs Young was the first lady of Atlanta during the mayoral terms of her husband, Andrew Young, in the 1980s and was known nationally and internationally as an educator and advocate for children’s rights.
Grace Towns Hamilton
The first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly
Lucy Craft Laney
The founder and principal of the Haines Institute in Augusta for fifty years (1883-1933), Lucy Craft Laney is Georgia’s most famous female African American educator.
Kathleen Neal Cleaver
Black Panther Party Communications Secretary and the first woman in the Party’s leadership group who later became a university porfessor and also worked as a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals
Herschelle Sullivan Challenor
Civil Rights organizer