Bertha Pitts Campbell
Bertha Pitts Campbell had many successes when it came to empowering women and fighting racism.
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Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding was gifted with a natural talent for music. Not only is she an amazing jazz singer, but she can also play the upright bass at the same time, a skill that takes most musicians years to be able to do. While her music is categorized as jazz, she incorporates elements of R&B and Brazilian music into her songs.
Amanda Morgan
In 2022, Morgan achieved a historic milestone by becoming the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s first Black woman ballerina in its fifty year existence.
Zanele Muholi
Visual activist who documents Black gay, lesbian, transgender, and intersex people in South Africa.
Elizabeth Catlett
In a career spanning more than 70 years, Elizabeth Catlett has created sculptures that celebrate the heroic strength and endurance of African-American and Mexican working-class women.
Ajena Cason Rogers
History interpreter for the National Park Service (US)
Marlisa L Smith
US National Security Agency Chief of Staff
Eliza Ann Gardner
Remembered as someone “pointed and convincing in speech, winning in manner, [and] overpowering in appeal,” community and religious leader Eliza Ann Gardner exemplified the social activist tradition within African-American churches.
Elizabeth Eckford
One of the Little Rock Nine who helped integrate American schools
Jacqueline K Van Landingham
She was one of the first African Americans at the CIA to lose her life in service to her country.