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Cornelia Oatman

In the 1970s, Cornelia Oatman filed a federal lawsuit against the Augusta, Georgia sheriff, jailer, and judge alleging civil rights violations in the death of her son.

Viola Ross Napier was elected to Georgia’s House of Representatives in 1922, only two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants women the right to vote.

Leah Ward Sears

Leah Ward Sears served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 2005 until 2009.

Elizabeth Stewart Magee

Fought to secure labor-reform legislation, especially protecting women and children

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

The first African American woman from Ohio elected to the United States House of Representatives, who served the state’s eleventh congressional district for nearly ten years. Prior to her election to Congress, Tubbs Jones was Chief Prosecutor of Cuyahoga County.

Jean Murrell Capers

In 1949, she became the first African-American woman elected to Cleveland City Council.

Annette Garner Butler

African-American civil rights lawyer and civic activist

Lillian W Burke

The first African-American woman judge in Ohio and the first to sit on the Ohio Industrial Commission, the highest state position ever held by an African-American woman at that time.

Margaret Lechowick

American basketball champion, child welfare advocate and lawyer

Louise Johnson Pridgeon

The first practicing African American woman lawyer in Cleveland, and was also active in welfare work and politics.