Dr Melba Pattillo Beals
American journalist and activist, renowned for her role as a member of the Little Rock Nine.
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Modjeska Monteith Simkins
Influential civil rights activist and public health advocate
Lucy Goode Brooks
African American woman born into slavery who became the visionary founder of the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia.
Mary Cardwell Dawson
Opera singer and arts activist in 1900s Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
Lauretta Ngcobo
South African writer, educator, and political activist
Juanita Abernathy
American civil rights activist and educator
Henrietta Duterte
African-American abolitionist and undertaker in Philadelphia.
Josephine Beall Willson Bruce
Educator and activist who worked closely with Booker T. Washington, and the first African-American on the faculty of a Cleveland public school.
Enolia McMillan
Influential African American educator and civil rights activist. She became the first female president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1984, serving until 1990.
Eulalie de Mandéville
Businesswoman and a prominent figure in New Orleans society during the early 19th century.