Dr Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
US civil rights activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and one of three women chosen to be a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
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Mildred Bond Roxborough
Mildred Bond Roxborough was a longtime secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and traveled throughout the South regularly to help with organizing.
Julia Matilda Burns
US civil rights activist
Ada Kepley
American attorney, temperance agitator and minister
Abby Hutchinson Patton
American singer and poet
Abigail Scott Duniway
American editor
Abby Morton Diaz
American industrial reformer
Abbie M Gannett
American author
Ada Celeste Sweet
American reformer, pension agent and humanitarian
Rosa Dixon Bowser
A noted educator and nationally known club woman, Bowser developed night classes and led summer teaching institutes throughout the state of Virginia for African American educators. She would later become a founder and president of the Virginia State Teachers Association.