Argentina Fernández

Argentina Fernández Rafaelli has devoted herself mainly to political journalism and has also worked in novels, poetry and the biographies of public officials

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Susan Paul

Through her actions and teachings, educator Susan Paul instilled in her students a commitment to social justice, action, and change.

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Sarah Patton Boyle

Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).

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Bethany Veney

Bethany Veney was an enslaved woman who, prior to the American Civil War (1861–1865), lived in the Shenandoah Valley and, in 1889, published The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman.

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