Carrie Williams Qisiliaq Uhl
Carrie was an important part of daily life in Sisualik, passing on on traditions to all who had an interest in learning, including teaching skin sewing, seal processing, and cooking.
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Grace Lee Boggs
Chinese American civil rights and labor activist whose support for causes such as the Black Power movement, feminism, and the environment spanned over 70 years.
Myrlie Evers–Williams
Civil rights activist
Elizabeth Fisher Read
Scholar and one of Eleanor Roosevelt’s earliest female political and feminist mentors
Tye Leung Schulze
Civil rights and community activist
Sue Kunitomi Embrey
Sue Kunitomi Embrey understood the need to recognize and protect places that are powerful parts of our national memory and used her civic voice to advocate for those places.
Alice Nugent
Like her sister Georgia, Alice Nugent played an active role in Black women’s clubs and other civic organizations in Kentucky. Both Alice and Georgia were founding members of Louisville’s Women’s Improvement Club (WIC).
Joan Newton Cuneo
Following Joan Newton Cuneo’s wins in the legendary Glidden Tour in 1908, women were banned from competing in American Automobile Association events.
Betty Reid Soskin
Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.
Charlotte Forten Grimke
Prominent abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. During the Civil War, Forten taught newly freed African-Americans on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Her writings and poetry showed her commitment to battling racial and gender inequality.