Mary Frances Early
On August 16, 1962, Mary Frances Early became the first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia.
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Lugenia Burns Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early 1900s social activist, reformer, and community organizer. Spending most of her career in Atlanta, she worked for the improvement of Black communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure.
Rebecca Buffum Spring
New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.
Lucy Craft Laney
The founder and principal of the Haines Institute in Augusta for fifty years (1883-1933), Lucy Craft Laney is Georgia’s most famous female African American educator.
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award.
Clare Marie Hodges
Yosemite National Park Park Ranger, 1918
Ericka Huggins
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet
Joan Moriarty
Irish traditional musician, step dancer, ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and founder of professional ballet in Ireland
Charlotte Fellman
She spent her career as a music teacher in the Boston Public Schools, coordinating music programs in schools throughout the city, and receiving several awards for music education.
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is a writer whose stories and literary imagination center on Georgia and its capital city.