Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
African-American author, poet, and playwright, celebrated for her contributions to African American and Native American literature.
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Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena
Argentine aristocrat and philanthropist.
Miriam Makeba
Renowned South African singer and civil rights activist.
Maryon Pittman Allen
American journalist and politician who briefly served as a United States Senator from Alabama.
Lauretta Ngcobo
South African writer, educator, and political activist
Julia Archibald Holmes
American suffragist and abolitionist, best known for being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1858.
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.
Indira Gandhi
Prominent Indian politician and the first female Prime Minister of India.
Ann Alabaster
New Zealand teacher
Amache Ochinee Prowers
Notable figure in Colorado’s history, known for her cultural and social influence.