Kitty Foster
Kitty Foster was a free African American woman who owned property just south of the University of Virginia, the site of which has been memorialized by the school.
Kitty Foster was a free African American woman who owned property just south of the University of Virginia, the site of which has been memorialized by the school.
Esther Georgia Irving Cooper was a civil rights leader in Arlington County, Virginia.
Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children.
Sally Cottrell was an enslaved maid and seamstress in 1800s Virginia.
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton was a civic leader who worked toward a more inclusive democracy in Roanoke, Virginia.
Evelyn Thomas Butts was a civil rights activist and Democratic Party leader from Norfolk who helped overturn Virginia’s poll tax.
Mary Aggie was an enslaved woman who became a principal in a court case that changed Virginia‘s statute law.
Virginia Estelle Randolph, born of formerly enslaved parents in Richmond, was a pioneering educator, community health advocate, organizational leader, and humanitarian.
Ruth LaCountess Harvey Wood Charity was a civil rights activist and defense attorney.
Mary Richards Bowser was born into slavery and later became a missionary to Liberia, a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil War (1861–1865), and a teacher at freedmen’s schools.