Betsey Harris
Enslaved African-American woman who was medically experimented on
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Lucy Zimmerman
Enslaved African-American woman who was medically experimented on
Ellen Eglin
In 1888, inventor Ellen Eglin sold the rights to a clothes wringer she had designed to an agent for $18 (around $570 today). “If it was known that a negro woman patented the invention, white ladies would not buy the wringer,” she explained in an 1891 interview.
Bessie Couture
Bessie Couture was the owner and operator of two restaurants in Skagway, Alaska starting in the 1890s.
Charmelle Sèmènou Alavo
Charmelle Sèmènou Alavo is the Founder of Sharm’s Concept, a design agency located in Cotonou, Littoral, Benin.
Caroline Barla
Caroline Barla is the second woman registered as an architect with L’Ordre National des Architectes du Cameroun (1986).
Dr Dee Allen
American military veteran and businesswoman
Juanita Kidd Stout
African-American judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1989
Claudette Williams
Jamaican-American Army officer who served during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom
Sarah Keys
Sarah Keys, a young, Black soldier serving at Fort Dix, New Jersey, took a stand against racial injustice changed interstate transportation in 1952.