Biddy Mason
African-American nurse and a pioneering real estate entrepreneur.
African-American nurse and a pioneering real estate entrepreneur.
Prominent African-American socialite, cattle rancher, and philanthropist in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, around the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Prominent African American educator and church founder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
American educator and civil rights activist
African-American physician, researcher, and public health advocate who broke significant barriers in medicine and academia.
Influential civil rights activist and public health advocate
Renowned South African singer and civil rights activist.
African American woman born into slavery who became the visionary founder of the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia.
Opera singer and arts activist in 1900s Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
American civil rights activist and educator