Selena Sloan Butler
Selena Sloan Butler organized the first National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers (NCCPT) and cofounded the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, which is now a part of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA).
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Margaret Edson
Margaret Edson, a playwright and kindergarten teacher in Atlanta, is best known for Wit, a play about a literary scholar diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print.
Alicia A Villareal Brictson
Mexican writer and teacher
Bárbara Viterbo Gutiérrez
Mexican playwright and professor
Edith Villavicencio
Mexican storyteller and professor
Paola Velasco
Essayist, storyteller, translator, poet, editor, screenwriter and Mexican cultural promoter
Ruby Virginia Redinger
Cleveland novelist and college educator whose most famous works were The Golden Net (1948) and George Eliot: The Emergent Self (1975)
Linda Anne Eastman
Became the first woman in the United States to head a metropolitan library system in 1918
Lillian Luverne Baldwin
Supervisor of music appreciation at Cleveland Public Schools for more than two decades