Miriam O’Brien Underhill
Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs
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Alice Childress
American playwright, actress, and author
Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.
Marie Wilcox
The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.
Isabelle Gatti de Gamond
Belgian educationalist, feminist, and politician.
Laudelina de Campos Melo
Afro-Brazilian activist and labor organizer.
Lee Hyo-jae
Prominent South Korean sociologist and feminist scholar.
Mabel Hampton
American lesbian activist and dancer during the Harlem Renaissance who played a vital role in Black and LGBTQ+ organizations, most notably the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.