Caroline LeCount
Prominent African American educator and civil rights activist during the 19th century.
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Hester C Jeffrey
American activist Hester C. Jeffrey was a suffragist and community organizer known for her work with the Political Equality Club, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
Huda Sha’arawi
Pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, becoming a central figure in Egypt’s early feminist movement.
Ann Petry
Writer best known for her 1946 novel “The Street,” which became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Alice H Parker
African-American inventor who patented the modern central heating gas furnace, revolutionizing home heating systems.
Misty Copeland
Renowned American ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Maria
Maria was a slave and possibly the leader of a 1716 slave rebellion on Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies in 1716.
Dr Mary Logan Reddick
African-American neuroembryologist who earned her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1944.
Rita F Dove
American poet who served as Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress.