Dorothy G Payer Shepherd
Curator of Textiles and Near Eastern ART for the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA, 1954-81)
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Helen Maria Chesnutt
Latin instructor and co-author of a Latin textbook
Carrie Williams Clifford
Orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and African-Americans. She helped found the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women in 1900 and served as its first president while she lived in Cleveland.
Josefina Vicens
Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights
Stella Godfrey White Bigham
African-American community activist, columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the first woman to serve on the board of the Cleveland Transit System
Madeline A DeSantis Iosue
President of her family company, C. DeSantis Paint Manufacturing Co.
Eileen Jackson Southern
Today, both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music recognize African American music as worthy of scholarly study – thanks in large part to her work.
Ethel Richardson
In 1932, Ethel Richardson was the first Australian woman to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender woman from San Francisco, to begin the “Remembering Our Dead” website memorial in order to commemorate the lives of transgender people who have been killed. With the help of fellow activist Penni Ashe Matz, Smith organized the first observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 28, 1999, the first anniversary of Rita Hester’s death.
Victoria Earle Matthews
A writer, activist, club woman, and social worker, Victoria Earle Matthews dedicated herself to community uplift, civil rights, and helping others.