Huda Sha’arawi
Pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, becoming a central figure in Egypt’s early feminist movement.
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Ann Petry
Writer best known for her 1946 novel “The Street,” which became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Alice H Parker
African-American inventor who patented the modern central heating gas furnace, revolutionizing home heating systems.
Misty Copeland
Renowned American ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Maria
Maria was a slave and possibly the leader of a 1716 slave rebellion on Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies in 1716.
Dr Mary Logan Reddick
African-American neuroembryologist who earned her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1944.
Rita F Dove
American poet who served as Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress.
Dinah Washington
American vocalist and pianist; prominent black female recording artist in the 1950s.
Sonia Sanchez
American poet, writer, and teacher who played a pivotal role in the Black Arts Movement and authored more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children’s books.