Ida Cox
Ida Cox was a vaudeville performer and a pioneering blues singer who, along with Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and Bessie Smith, founded the female blues genre.
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Nellie Mae Rowe
A creative and resourceful self-taught artist, Nellie Mae Rowe gained national recognition for her work during the last decade of her life.
Cornelia Walker Bailey
As a member of the last generation of African Americans born and educated on Sapelo Island, Cornelia Bailey became one of Georgia’s most vocal defenders of her homeland and its African American heritage.
Jean Childs Young
Jean Childs Young was the first lady of Atlanta during the mayoral terms of her husband, Andrew Young, in the 1980s and was known nationally and internationally as an educator and advocate for children’s rights.
Dr Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee, published in 1966, is one of the first novels to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from an African-American and female point of view.
Mildred McDaniel
Atlanta native Mildred McDaniel excelled in basketball and gained fame in track and field by winning Olympic gold and setting a world record in the high jump.
Grace Towns Hamilton
The first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly
Dr Hazel Ruth Edwards
Dr. Hazel Ruth Edwards, FAICP, is an educator and planner whose career combines place-based research with planning and urban design practice and teaching.
Jeannine Smith Clark
Jeannine Smith Clark was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, a chair of the National Portrait Gallery Commission, and a director of the White House Historical Association.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
American poet and fiction author