Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.
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Leila Denmark
Leila Denmark was the oldest practicing pediatrician in the United States when she retired in 2001 at the age of 103. In seventy years of practice, Denmark rarely charged patients more than ten dollars for an office consultation, and it was not unusual for her to spend an hour counseling a new mother.
Julia Flisch
Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Janisse Ray
Janisse Ray, an environmental activist and poet, is the award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a highly praised book that combines elements of ecology and autobiography into a multifaceted work.
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Eliza Frances Andrews
Eliza Frances Andrews was an American writer, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, social critic, scientist, and educator.
Kate Pierson
Founding member of the B-52s, lyricist and singer who plays guitar, bass and various keyboard instruments.
Nathalie Dupree
As the first woman since Julia Child to film more than 100 cooking shows for public television, Nathalie Dupree helped bring southern US cooking to the nation’s attention. Recognizing the contributions of European and African cooks, she emphasized traditional ingredients and foodways that can be traced back through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Civil War (1861-65). T
Adela Fernández
Mexican educator and writer whose work included 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short experimental films and many plays.
Sarah Hillhouse
First woman to edit a newspaper in the US state of Georgia