Beatrice Wright Fox
Educator, the first African-American administrator in the Mount Pleasant area, and an advisor/director with the Phillis Wheatley Association
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Geraldine Williams
Ohio civic activist and political strategist
Lillian W Burke
The first African-American woman judge in Ohio and the first to sit on the Ohio Industrial Commission, the highest state position ever held by an African-American woman at that time.
Mary Brown Martin
The first African-American woman elected to the Cleveland Board of Education
Eileen Jackson Southern
Today, both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music recognize African American music as worthy of scholarly study – thanks in large part to her work.
Rachel Walker Turner
African-American soprano who began her career in Cleveland and later toured the U.S. and Europe singing classical selections as well as songs such as “The Last Rose of Summer” and “Swanee River.”
Rita Hester
The origins of Transgender Day of Remembrance can be traced to the killing of Rita Hester on November 28, 1998.
Ce Ce Acoff
A transgender woman who was killed when an intimate partner discovered that she was transgender and stabbed her in 2013
Ivenue Love-Stanley
The architectural firm Stanley, Love-Stanley was established in Atlanta in 1978 by Ivenue Love-Stanley and her husband William J. “Bill” Stanley III
Grace Finley Price
Trailblazing African American entrepreneur in Ohio