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Frances Farmer

Frances Farmer was a law librarian and the first female law professor at the University of Virginia.

Cornelia Storrs Adair

Cornelia Storrs Adair served as president of the National Education Association (NEA), a teachers’ union, from 1927 to 1928, the first classroom teacher to be elected to that position.

Barbara Rose Johns Powell conceived and executed a 1951 student walkout at the all-Black Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, precipitating one of five legal cases that would be consolidated into the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned segregated public schools.

Aline E Black

Aline E. Black was a teacher known primarily as a principal in a civil rights court case on equal pay.

Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité

She became the first Empress of Haiti after her marriage to General Jean-Jacques Dessalines who crowned himself emperor of Haiti on October 8, 1804.

Martha Putney

African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II

Pola Nirenska

Modern dancer and choreographer

Freida Bethmann

Emilie Bethmann (1844-1928) and her daughter Freida Bethmann (1868-1951) were pioneers in Boston’s kindergarten education, with Freida even teaching at the White House.

Emilie Bethmann

Emilie Bethmann (1844-1928) and her daughter Freida Bethmann (1868-1951) were pioneers in Boston’s kindergarten education.

Lydia Nadejena

Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator