Kate Jordan
Irish novelist and playwright
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Ericka Huggins
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a leading advocate for land rights and reconciliation, and in 1964 published the first modern poetry book by an Aboriginal Australian woman.
Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
1800s Irish novelist
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is a writer whose stories and literary imagination center on Georgia and its capital city.
Carrie Steele Logan
Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.
Julia Pardoe
1800s UK author
bell hooks
As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality.
Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher was the first female director of the National Gallery of Australia.
Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum
In April 2002 Beverly Daniel Tatum, dean of the college and acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, was named Spelman College’s ninth president.