Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
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Lydia Parrish
In the 1950’s, Lydia Parrish made recordings of traditional songs of the Gullah Geechee culture that are now part of the Margaret Davis Cate Collection at Fort Frederica National Monument.
Veronica Franco
1500s Italian courtesan and poet
Evdokiya Rostopchina
1800s Russian poet
Caroline Pafford Miller
Caroline Miller published her first novel, Lamb in His Bosom, in 1933 and became the first Georgian to win the Pulitzer Prize for a novel.
Carson McCullers
With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, more than two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verse, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, Carson McCullers is considered to be among the most significant American writers of the twentieth century.
Adriana Patricia Quintero Úsuga
Colombian human rights activist
Catherine Doyle
1800s Irish nun and military nurse
C Mildred Thompson
Prominent American historian, educator, and feminist who made a name for herself not only in academic circles but also in both Democratic politics and international affairs.
Dorothy Fuldheim
Dorothy Fuldheim entered the field of television at an age when most people begin to plan their retirement and lasted there long enough to become a living legend.