Minnie Gentry
“The First Lady” of Karamu Theater, this critically acclaimed artist received a Tony nomination in 1972 and the Outstanding Pioneer Award for her contributions to Black theater in 1985.
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Rousara Joyce Whitley
Architect, city planner, and writer, served as chief planner for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1967-68).
Helen Haiman Joseph
The “grandmother of American puppetry” because of her practical and scholarly knowledge of marionettes.
Tiffany Sturdivant
Executive director of Appalshop arts center
Butterfly McQueen
For most of her film career, McQueen was typecast as a servant, but when those roles became scant in Hollywood during the 1950s, she pursued jobs in musical theater, television, and radio. She won the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award in 1975 and an Emmy Award for her role in the children’s television special The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody (1979).
Qi Shu Fang
Chinese opera performer
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) is an award-winning author
Elizabeth Cary
1600s Viscountess Falkland , writer and translator
Pualani Kanaka’ole Kanahel
Guardian of the ancient style of hula that predates commercial forms of the dance that emerged in the twentieth century
Agnes Booth
1800s actress