Mary Richards Bowser
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.
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Sarah Garland Boyd Jones
Sarah Garland Boyd Jones became the first African American woman to pass the Virginia Medical Examining Board’s examination.
Elizabeth Key Grinstead
Elizabeth Key was a principal in one of the important early court cases that shaped the evolving law of slavery in seventeenth-century Virginia.
Suzanne Louverture
Wife of Haitian Revolution leader Toussaint Louverture; she was tortured when captured by Napoleon. They demanded information about the whereabouts of her husband which she never divulged.
Ann Banks Davis
Ann Banks Davis was an enslaved woman who lived in Virginia in the 1800s
Victoria Montou
Fighter in Jean-Jacques Dessalines army during the Haitian Revolution.
Barbara Rose Johns
Barbara Rose Johns Powell conceived and executed a 1951 student walkout at the all-Black Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, precipitating one of five legal cases that would be consolidated into the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned segregated public schools.
Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére
Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére was a Haitian soldier known not only for her courage but for her skills in battle and strategy. She was a leading figure in the pivotal Battle of Crête-á-Pierrot in 1802.
Marie-Louise Coidavid
Marie-Louise Coidavid was the first and only Queen of an independent Haiti.
Suzanne Bélair
Haitian revolutionary leader who served in Toussaint Louverture’s army.