Norma Jean Serena
Serena, a Native American woman, filed a civil lawsuit in 1974 seeking damages for violations of her constitutional rights to procreate and bear children
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Sau Ung Loo Chan
As a Yale Law graduate and the first Asian American woman lawyer in Hawai’i, she became an advocate for Chinese Americans, restored U.S. citizenship for her family, and fought for broader immigrant rights.
Anna Bennett Bland
Anna Bennett Bland was a principal in a court case that resulted in the Virginia General Assembly losing its status as the court of last appeal in the colony.
Anjali Sharma
Anjali Sharma’s passion for climate justice goes beyond her concern for the environment and includes supporting First Nations people, racial equality, gender equality and marginalised communities.
Hattie Kendrick
American teacher and civil rights activist
Jane Webb
Jane Webb was a free, mixed-race woman in colonial Virginia who sued her husband’s enslaver when he refused to live up to the terms of a contract that would have freed her husband and the bound Webb children.
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.
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.