Argentina Fernández
Argentina Fernández Rafaelli has devoted herself mainly to political journalism and has also worked in novels, poetry and the biographies of public officials
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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.
Lethia Cousins Fleming
Lethia Cousins Fleming directed national campaign efforts among African American women for three Republican presidential candidates, and led the National Association of Republican Colored Women (1920) and women’s activities in Cleveland’s 11th Ward for almost a decade (1920s).
Geraldine Williams
Ohio civic activist and political strategist
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.
Elizabeth Butler
1600s duchess of Ormond and Lady Dingwall
Louise Johnson Pridgeon
The first practicing African American woman lawyer in Cleveland, and was also active in welfare work and politics.
Sherlie Hereford Rainey
Sherlie Hereford Rainey (3 Feb. 1939-7 Aug. 1992), mayor of Woodmere (1985-89), was the first African-American woman to hold a mayoral position in Cuyahoga County. Also an athlete, Rainey set an American record for the standing long jump (1958) and was National Amateur Athletic Union champion of that event for 3 years. She was elected to the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.
Margaret Laird
Margaret Laird (1861-1978) of Essex County was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, and was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly.