Grace Thorpe
Native American rights activist and environmentalist
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Nikki Giovanni
Author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including “Black Feeling, Black Talk,” “Blues: For All the Changes” and “Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose”
Karen Silkwood
Silkwood was a chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee’s plutonium fuels production plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, and a member of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers’ Union. She was also an activist who was critical of plant safety and her suspicious death remains unsolved.
Ellamae Ellis League
Ellamae Ellis League practiced as an architect in Georgia for more than fifty years, from 1922 until she retired in 1975.
Thoko Ntshinga
For South African actress Thoko Ntshinga, her art and her community are inseparable.
Ericka Huggins
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet
Carrie Steele Logan
Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.
Elaine Brown
African-American political activist
Viola Ross Napier
Viola Ross Napier was elected to Georgia’s House of Representatives in 1922, only two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants women the right to vote.
Julia Keese Nelson Colles
Julia Keese Nelson Colles (1840-1913) was an American academic and a founding member of the Women’s Board of the New Jersey Historical Society.