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Antoinette de Saint-Étienne

First Nations nun who sang for a queen

Maggie Ingram

Matriach of the Legendary Ingramettes, widely considered Richmond, Va.’s “First Family of Gospel,” uplifting audiences for over six decades while becoming beloved cultural icons in the community.

The Winnsboro Easter Rock Ensemble, under the direction of Hattie Addison Burkhalter, maintains a rare women-led African American traditional spiritual ritual, rooted in both Christian worship and West African ring shout tradition.

Amma D McKen

McKen has sung traditional sacred Yoruba music since she was 14 and is recognized as a Priestess of Yemonja.

Helen Timmons Henderson

Helen Timmons Henderson served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1924–1925), one of the first two women elected to that body (the other was Norfolk‘s Sarah Lee Fain).

Coelfhind

Foundress of Termonmore and saint in the Irish tradition

Cécile Fatiman

Cécile Fatiman was a mambo (a vodou priestess) who is believed to have formed networks on the island of Haiti that would transfer information from plantation to plantation.

Juliann Jane Tillman

African Methodist Episcopal preacher

Hattie B Cooper

When the Union United Methodist Church was located in Lower Roxbury in 1916, the Women’s Home Missionary Society, under the leadership of Hattie B. Cooper (1862–1949), provided services for the growing population of African Americans in that area.

Eliza Clapp

Eliza Clapp (1811-1888) was a prominent member of the Transcendentalist movement in 19th century New England and a poet and author.