Grace Towns Hamilton
The first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly
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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
Mary Frances Early
On August 16, 1962, Mary Frances Early became the first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia.
Lugenia Burns Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early 1900s social activist, reformer, and community organizer. Spending most of her career in Atlanta, she worked for the improvement of Black communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure.
Thoko Ntshinga
For South African actress Thoko Ntshinga, her art and her community are inseparable.