Eliza Carpenter
Pioneering African American jockey and horse trainer
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Elizabeth Piper Ensley
African-American educator and suffragist
Florida J Wolfe
Prominent African-American socialite, cattle rancher, and philanthropist in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, around the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Helen Appo Cook
Distinguished African American activist and leader, known for her significant contributions to civil rights and women’s suffrage movements.
Irene Moorman Blackstone
African-American businesswoman and club member who became active in the fight for women’s suffrage.
Jane Datcher
Pioneering African-American botanist.
Isabella Gibbons
African-American educator who became a teacher after being freed from enslavement
Jennie Dean
Prominent African American educator and church founder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Septima Poinsette Clark
American educator and civil rights activist
Dr Virginia M Alexander
African-American physician, researcher, and public health advocate who broke significant barriers in medicine and academia.