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Flora Díaz Parrado

Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist

Pearl Bailey

African-American actress, singer, comedian and author.

Minerva Kline Brooks

Ohio suffragist who also helped organize the precursor of the Cleveland Play House (1915), and introduced interpretive dance in both Cleveland and New York City.

Lula B Jones

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

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

Kate Jordan

Irish novelist and playwright

Thoko Ntshinga

For South African actress Thoko Ntshinga, her art and her community are inseparable.

Lisa Bellear

Lisa Bellear’s work as an artist, poet, photographer, broadcaster, activist and academic continues to inspire change and educate.

Gertrude Johnson

Gertrude Johnson OBE was an Australian opera singer, arts educator and administrator.

Charlotte Brooke

Irish poet, dramatist, and pioneer in the introduction of Irish culture to the English reader