Ione Kenny Biggs
American advocate for peace and human rights
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Stella Godfrey White Bigham
African-American community activist, columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the first woman to serve on the board of the Cleveland Transit System
Annette Garner Butler
African-American civil rights lawyer and civic activist
Florence Bundy Fairfax
A long-time employee of Cleveland’s Recreation Department who worked “to help children to form good social patterns of behavior through recreation.”
Geraldine Williams
Ohio civic activist and political strategist
Mary Brown Martin
The first African-American woman elected to the Cleveland Board of Education
Margaret Lechowick
American basketball champion, child welfare advocate and lawyer
Penni Ashe Matz
Penni Ashe Matz andGwendolyn Smith organized the first observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 28, 1999, the first anniversary of Rita Hester’s death.
Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender woman from San Francisco, to begin the “Remembering Our Dead” website memorial in order to commemorate the lives of transgender people who have been killed. With the help of fellow activist Penni Ashe Matz, Smith organized the first observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 28, 1999, the first anniversary of Rita Hester’s death.
Mary Ellen Czelusinak
Deaf woman who ministered to the Catholic hearing impaired community of Cleveland.