Margaret Brent
Margaret Brent was one of the earliest residents of Westmoreland County, Virginia, where she owned a sizable estate named Peace plantation and helped to establish Virginia’s first Roman Catholic community.
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Odessa Pittard Bailey
Odessa Pittard Bailey was a civic leader in western Virginia.
Mary Aggie
Mary Aggie was an enslaved woman who became a principal in a court case that changed Virginia‘s statute law.
Thomasin Hall
Thomas(in) Hall was an intersex individual who lived in seventeenth century Virginia.
Ruth Harvey Charity
Ruth LaCountess Harvey Wood Charity was a civil rights activist and defense attorney.
Frances Farmer
Frances Farmer was a law librarian and the first female law professor at the University of Virginia.
Elizabeth Key Grinstead
Elizabeth Key was a principal in one of the important early court cases that shaped the evolving law of slavery in seventeenth-century Virginia.
Carrie Buck
Carrie Buck was the first person involuntarily sterilized under Virginia’s eugenics laws. In Buck v. Bell (1927), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Virginia’s law was constitutional and that Buck should be sterilized, the first of approximately 8,300 performed under state law between 1927 and 1972.
Aline E Black
Aline E. Black was a teacher known primarily as a principal in a civil rights court case on equal pay.
Sarah Roberts
Benjamin Roberts, an African American, sued the city of Boston in 1848 stating that his daughter Sarah Roberts was unlawfully refused entrance to five schools between her home and the Smith School.