Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.
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Martha Putney
African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II
Pippa Latour Doyle
Pippa Latour Doyle moved to England from her native South Africa in 1941 to join the war effort. She was recruited into the UK’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) to spy for the Allies in France due to her fluency in French.
Raina Telgemeier
American comic artist
Renée Bédarida
Renée Bedarida was a Frenc Resistance fighter who worked with the Lyonnais group Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Witness) in WWII. After the war, she wrote two books about the movement and its leader, Father Pierre Chaillet.
Roberta MacDonald
Unlike many cartoonists at that time, she depicted women in the military and other jobs.
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Marjorie Henderson Buell
Marge Henderson Buell debuted her comic Little Lulu in 1935 in the Saturday Evening Post, where it became a hit and ran until 1944.
Nella Larsen
Harlem Renaissance writer
Lydia Nadejena
Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator