Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.
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Harriet E Giles
Co-founder of Spelman College in Georgia
Sophia B Packard
Co-founder of Spelman College in Atlanta
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
Elsie Inglis
Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Carson McCullers
With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, more than two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verse, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, Carson McCullers is considered to be among the most significant American writers of the twentieth century.
Saint Walatta Petros
1600s Ethiopian saint Walatta Petros was a revered religious leader who was a driving force preventing the Catholic colonization of her country and her church.
Violet Florence Martin
1800s Irish novelist
Artemisa Téllez
Mexican writer, poet, playwright, and workshop facilitator
Martine Rothblatt
Her long list of accomplishments includes creating and commercializing satellite radio, founding a biotechnology company that seeks to provide an unlimited supply of transplantable organs, setting world records for electric flight and delving deep into the future of artificial intelligence with her work on digital immortality.