Florida Ruffin Ridley
While Florida Ruffin Ridley followed in the footsteps of her mother, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, she paved her own way as a writer, activist, and community leader.
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Hannah Tomiko Holmes
Educator and disability rights activist
Josephine St Pierre Ruffin
An activist at heart, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin assumed many public roles throughout her life, from publisher and clubwoman to community leader and national organizer.
Olivia Robello Breitha
Renowned author and Hansen’s disease activist who resided in Kalaupapa from 1937 until her death in 2006.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
African-American educator, speaker, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman
Willa Brown
Brown earned her pilot license in 1938, her commercial license in 1939 and earned her Master Mechanic Certificate in 1935.
Pelagia Melgenak
Pelagia Melgenak’s story shows a grit and determination to survive as an individual but also as a vessel to help a culture survive.
Katharine Wright
Often ignored in the histories, the third Wright sibling was vital to her brothers’ success
Anna Louise Strong
Prolific writer and journalist who brought socialist politics to the mountains when she co-founded Cooperative Campers of the Pacific Northwest in 1916.
MaVynee Betsch
Environmental activist who worked to preserve and protect a historically African-American beach on Florida’s Atlantic coast.