Odessa Pittard Bailey
Odessa Pittard Bailey was a civic leader in western Virginia.
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Angela Russell
Irish physician and social reformer
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton was a civic leader who worked toward a more inclusive democracy in Roanoke, Virginia.
Katherine Wilson
Irish republican, civil servant, and teacher
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms.
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon was a suffrage activist who worked for change at every level: as a grassroots organizer, a state politics watchdog, and a researcher at a federal agency.
Evelyn Thomas Butts
Evelyn Thomas Butts was a civil rights activist and Democratic Party leader from Norfolk who helped overturn Virginia’s poll tax.
Ruth Harvey Charity
Ruth LaCountess Harvey Wood Charity was a civil rights activist and defense attorney.
Sarah Patton Boyle
Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).
Cornelia Storrs Adair
Cornelia Storrs Adair served as president of the National Education Association (NEA), a teachers’ union, from 1927 to 1928, the first classroom teacher to be elected to that position.