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
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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.
Almeda C Adams
ADAMS, ALMEDA C. (February 26, 1865-September 8, 1949) overcame sightlessness to help found the Cleveland Music School Settlement and achieved a long career as a teacher, author, and lecturer.
Paula Kassell
Paula Kassell (b.1917) founded and edited New Directions for Women in New Jersey, the first feminist publication in the country.
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor is considered one of America’s greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century.
Dr Jill Ker Conway
Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.
Suni Paz
Suni Paz was one of the first artists to bring the nueva canción tradition—the “new song” music of the 1960s and 1970s—to North American audiences. For more than half of a century, her work as an American songwriter and performer of Latin American folk music has resonated as a cultural force, engaging people of all backgrounds and ages.