Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Writer, historian, and lecturer, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is a pioneer in the field of women’s studies, having shaped Emory University’s Institution of Women’s Studies as its first director from 1986 to 1991.

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Sarah Ann Brock

Sarah Ann Brock, a writer who often published under the pseudonym Virginia Madison, published numerous editorials, historical articles, reviews, essays, letters, travel sketches, short stories, biographies, and translations in her career.

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Virginia Moore

Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”

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Pat Johnson

Pat Finley Johnson is a pillar to the community of Pocahontas, Arkansas, where she supports community fellowship, traditional knowledge, and Black culture and heritage.

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Cornelia Walker Bailey

As a member of the last generation of African Americans born and educated on Sapelo Island, Cornelia Bailey became one of Georgia’s most vocal defenders of her homeland and its African American heritage.

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