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.
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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
Lucy Craft Laney
The founder and principal of the Haines Institute in Augusta for fifty years (1883-1933), Lucy Craft Laney is Georgia’s most famous female African American educator.
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award.
Martha Hudson
Olympic track and field gold medal winner and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) All-American