Gladys Knight
As one of Motown’s leading ladies of soul in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gladys Knight was the driving force behind Gladys Knight and the Pips, an all-family music group from Atlanta.
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Tracy K Smith
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2017-2019
Rosa Lee Ingram
Rosa Lee Ingram was an African American woman whose 1948 murder conviction, along with the conviction of two of her adolescent sons, raised doubt about the integrity of Georgia’s judicial system. Civil rights organizations launched an ambitious campaign to free the Ingrams in the years that followed.
Willie Mae Ford Smith
African-American gospel singer and evangelist
Amanda Wicker
In 1924 Wicker opened the Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design
Minnie Gentry
“The First Lady” of Karamu Theater, this critically acclaimed artist received a Tony nomination in 1972 and the Outstanding Pioneer Award for her contributions to Black theater in 1985.
Jane Edna Hunter
Prominent African-American social worker who founded the Phillis Wheatley Assocation
Brittany Stergis
A transgender woman who was killed in 2013.
Hazel Mountain Walker
The first black woman principal in the Cleveland public school system, an educator, an actress, and an advocate for racial integration.
Jean Murrell Capers
In 1949, she became the first African-American woman elected to Cleveland City Council.