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Cardiss Collins

Elected to 12 consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Cardiss Collins ranks as one of the longest-serving women of color in the history of Congress.

Carrie P Meek

In 1992, Carrie P. Meek won election to the U.S. House of Representatives becoming one of the first African- American lawmakers to represent Florida in Congress since Reconstruction.

Veronica Chambers

Prolific author best known for her critically acclaimed memoir, Mama’s Girl, which has been course adopted by hundreds of high schools and colleges throughout the U.S.

In 1965, after Alabama state troopers attacked voting rights marchers on what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” Sister Antona Ebo and other nuns from the Franciscan Sisters of Mary traveled to Selma and joined the march to Montgomery when it resumed two weeks later.

Annie White

Annie White made her daring escape from slavery to freedom aboard the Confederate steamer, The Planter in the early hours of May 13, 1862.

Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas is the bestselling author of the young adult novels “The Hate U Give,” “On the Come Up” and “Concrete Rose.”

Ariana Benson

African-American southern ecopoet. Her debut collection, Black Pastoral, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2024 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Leonard Prize and the Library of Virginia Prize in Poetry.

Amina Claudine Myers

From her early beginnings as a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Amina Claudine Myers has gained acclaim as a skilled composer for voice and instruments, often displaying her gospel influences. Her move to New York City in the 1970s led her to prioritize her compositional work and to take on theatrical production projects.