Lillian W Burke
The first African-American woman judge in Ohio and the first to sit on the Ohio Industrial Commission, the highest state position ever held by an African-American woman at that time.
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Mary Brown Martin
The first African-American woman elected to the Cleveland Board of Education
Clara Lucil Johnson
One of the first African American female ministers in Cleveland and the founder of Highlight FBH “Fire Baptized Holiness” Church in the 1950s
Myrtle Johnson Bell
Ohio teacher, administrator and community activist, and the first African-American assistant high school principal in the Cleveland Public Schools
Ione Kenny Biggs
American advocate for peace and human rights
Stella Godfrey White Bigham
African-American community activist, columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the first woman to serve on the board of the Cleveland Transit System
Annette Garner Butler
African-American civil rights lawyer and civic activist
Florence Bundy Fairfax
A long-time employee of Cleveland’s Recreation Department who worked “to help children to form good social patterns of behavior through recreation.”
Beatrice Wright Fox
Educator, the first African-American administrator in the Mount Pleasant area, and an advisor/director with the Phillis Wheatley Association
Rachel Walker Turner
African-American soprano who began her career in Cleveland and later toured the U.S. and Europe singing classical selections as well as songs such as “The Last Rose of Summer” and “Swanee River.”