Enolia McMillan
Influential African American educator and civil rights activist. She became the first female president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1984, serving until 1990.
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Fannie Mae Duncan
African American-entrepreneur and civil rights pioneer in Colorado Springs best known for establishing the Cotton Club, an integrated jazz club
Florence Merriam Bailey
American ornithologist, naturalist, and author
Hallie Quinn Brown
African American educator, writer, and women’s rights activist, renowned for her contributions to education and the fight for racial and gender equality.
Dr Helen Caldicott
Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has dedicated much of her life to campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons and promoting environmental responsibility.
Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
Dorothy Livesay
Canadian poet, memoirist and literary critic
Edith Van Horn
Labor leader with the United Auto Workers for decades
Ella Baker
Leading African-American civil rights and human rights activist throughout much of the twentieth century.
Elsie Allen
Renowned Native American basket weaver and cultural preservationist from the Pomo tribe in Northern California.