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Amy Brooks

American author and illustrator.

Anna Bobbitt Gardner

In 1932, Anna Bobbitt Gardner (1901-97) became the first African American women to be awarded a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire is best known for her work with the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop and creating the famous Dr Who theme music.

Concert pianist, composer, teacher, lecturer, and author; director and founder of the Allied Arts Center and author of Negro Musicians and Their Music, a comprehensive survey of African-American music, as well as an arts critic and specialist in Creole music.

Donna Summer

The Queen of Disco who won five Grammys and sold more than one hundred million records worldwide.

Alma Gluck

Romanian-American singer

Théroigne de Méricourt

A prosperous peasant who was inspired by the ideals of the Revolution, she found herself in Paris right before the fall of the Bastille. Having had numerous lovers and suffered the death of a child, she felt compelled to fight for the downtrodden.