Hattie Kendrick
American teacher and civil rights activist
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Queen Ida Guillory
There have been several kings of zydeco over the years, but there has been only one Queen Ida.
Albertina Walker
Singer-songwriter known as the “Queen of Gospel Music”
Amma D McKen
McKen has sung traditional sacred Yoruba music since she was 14 and is recognized as a Priestess of Yemonja.
Burnardine Fraser Flanagan
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
Ida R Cummings
Ida R. Cummings and her family were on the front lines from the suffrage movement to supporting amendments to better the rights of Black Americans.
Lucretia Marshbanks
Lucretia Marshbanks was one of the first black women to venture to the Black Hills of South Dakota. She was a cook, boarding house manager, hotel owner, and ranch owner.
Millie Dunn
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Rosina Corrothers Tucker
A civil rights and labor activist, Rosina Corrothers Tucker played a pivotal role in the creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and its International Ladies’ Auxiliary Order.
Jane Webb
Jane Webb was a free, mixed-race woman in colonial Virginia who sued her husband’s enslaver when he refused to live up to the terms of a contract that would have freed her husband and the bound Webb children.