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Eleanor Bumpurs

When people with mental health problems are in crisis, police often are the first responders. Since many officers have little to no training on how to assess or treat mental illness, these situations can easily become violent. One of the first cases to receive wide attention and spur reform efforts happened on Oct. 29, 1984. A white New York City police officer fatally shot 66-year-old Eleanor Bumpurs, a Black woman. Bumpurs, who lived in public housing and had a history of mental health problems, was killed during an eviction.

Susanna Dickinson

Susanna Dickinson became famous for her first-hand account of what happened during the 13-day siege of the Alamo and the Battle of the Alamo

Octavia Minor

Octavia Minor (circa 69 BCE to 11 BCE) was a Roman noblewoman who rose to prominence during the early years of the Roman Empire.

Roxanne

Wife of Alexander the Great

Peggy Eaton

The Petticoat affair, also called the Eaton affair, was a political scandal that rocked Washington, D.C., from 1829 to 1831, during the early years of Andrew Jackson’s presidency. Revolving around the rumored sexual promiscuity of Peggy Eaton, wife of the US secretary of war, the affair divided Jackson’s cabinet and reshuffled the leadership of the fledgling Democratic Party.

Clarissa Davis

Clarissa Davis (later known as Mary D. Armstead) dressed as a man to evade slave-catchers and others, and traveled in a chest aboard a ship from Virginia to Pennsylvania to win her freedom.

Lear Green

Lear Green (circa 1839-1860) was an enslaved African American woman in Baltimore, Maryland, who had herself shipped in a chest to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery.

Aud the Deep-Minded

9th-century Norse royal who fled to Iceland and settled there

Cassandane Shahbanu

Cassandane was the wife of Cyrus the Great (r. c. 550-530 BCE), founder of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE).

Megilla

The love affair of Leaena and Megilla is referenced in the Dialogues of the Courtesans in the 2nd century BCE