Biddy Mason
African-American nurse and a pioneering real estate entrepreneur.
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Florida J Wolfe
Prominent African-American socialite, cattle rancher, and philanthropist in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, around the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Helen Appo Cook
Distinguished African American activist and leader, known for her significant contributions to civil rights and women’s suffrage movements.
Ho Miu-ling
Philanthropist in British Hong Kong
Ann O’Donnell
New Zealand farmer, grocer, hotel proprietor
Gretta Cousins
Irish suffragist, educator, and theosophist
Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena
Argentine aristocrat and philanthropist.
Henrietta Duterte
African-American abolitionist and undertaker in Philadelphia.
Fannie Mae Duncan
African American-entrepreneur and civil rights pioneer in Colorado Springs best known for establishing the Cotton Club, an integrated jazz club
Eleanor Abbott
Eleanor Abbott created the game Candy Land while she was recovering from polio