Frances Batty Shand
1800s Jamaican-British social worker
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Verma Wevlyn Panton
Verma Wevlyn Panton is considered the first woman architect in Jamaica and the West Indies.
Claudette Williams
Jamaican-American Army officer who served during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom
Amy Jacques Garvey
Jamaican journalist and activist
Amy Ashwood Garvey
Jamaican activist, co-founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which was the most influential anti-colonial organisation in Jamaica for decades. Co-founder of the international Negro World newspaper, and one of the first directors of UNIA’s shipping line, the Black Star Line.
Michelle Buteau
American comedian, actor and writer
Norma Shirley
Jamaican chef Norma Shirley built a reputation in the U.S. serving “New England food with Jamaican flair” at her Massachusetts restaurant in the late 1970s. But as she told Essence magazine, “It’s my dream to open another restaurant in Jamaica where Blacks would be the majority clientele.”
Claudia L Gordon
In 2000, Claudia L. Gordon became the first Deaf Black female lawyer in the U.S.
Yvette Clarke
US Representative from New York
Sheila Jackson Lee
US Representative from Texas