Nellie L Davis
Co-wrote Heaven Bound, an African American folk drama that portrays the struggles and pitfalls of a group of pilgrims striving to reach the gates of heaven
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Margaret Sunderland Cooper
American piritualist, animal rights activist and was Inspector of Cattle Transportation for the state of New Hampshire.
Rebecca Buffum Spring
New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.
Ruth Marcus Patt
Active member of the Jewish community of New Brunswick in New Jersey.
Florence Buck
Cleveland, Ohio pastor
Eliza Bennis
Irish-American methodist activist and diarist
Eleanor Dillon
1600s Irish nun
Cecily Dillon
1600s Irish co-foundress and first abbess of the Irish Poor Clares in Dublin, Bethlehem and Athlone
Celeste Bowe
Irish Daughter of Charity and nurse
Dottie Peoples
Gospel singer and songwriter Dottie Peoples is one of Georgia’s most renowned figures in Christian music. Hailed as the “Songbird of the South” by the late radio host Esmond J. Patterson, Peoples has been compared to gospel and rhythm-and-blues artists Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle.