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Emily Barnelia Woodward

Emily Woodward was a prominent female journalist in the early twentieth-century Southern US who became an outspoken advocate of liberal causes.

Helen A Whiting

Whiting worked hard to promote African American education and to improve classroom conditions in 1930s and ’40s Georgia (US state).

Founded by visionary dance instructor Dorothy Moses Alexander, the Atlanta Ballet began performing in 1929. Alexander’s dream of bringing quality ballet to the Atlanta community resulted in the Dorothy Alexander Dance Art Group—the first regional ballet company in the United States.

Nathalie Dupree

As the first woman since Julia Child to film more than 100 cooking shows for public television, Nathalie Dupree helped bring southern US cooking to the nation’s attention. Recognizing the contributions of European and African cooks, she emphasized traditional ingredients and foodways that can be traced back through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Civil War (1861-65). T

Adela Fernández

Mexican educator and writer whose work included 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short experimental films and many plays.

Harriet E Giles

Co-founder of Spelman College in Georgia

Sophia B Packard

Co-founder of Spelman College in Atlanta

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin

Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).

Helen Matthews Lewis

In her dual role as academic and social activist, Lewis helped found the discipline of Appalachian Studies and served for several decades as one of its most influential leaders.

Anna Morandi Manzolini

1700s Italian painter, sculptor, and anatomist, and for many years held the chair of Anatomy at the University of Bologna