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Laura Redden Searing

Deaf American suffragist

Elizabeth Casey

Irish author (as ‘E. Owens Blackburne ’)

Adeline Dutton Train Whitney

American poet and writer, who published more than 20 books for girls

Alice Dixon Le Plongeon

1800s British archaeologist

Dorothy Cottrell

Disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was ‘the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age’ but is almost unheard of here

A scholar, anthropologist, and academic pace-setter, Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s pioneering work about the on-going contributions of Afro-Latin, Caribbean, and African communities have advanced American understanding of Black culture and the necessity and power of racial inclusion in the US.

Dr Elizabeth Alexander

Poet, scholar, and cultural advocate; a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, and American society and president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States.