Norma Jean Serena
Serena, a Native American woman, filed a civil lawsuit in 1974 seeking damages for violations of her constitutional rights to procreate and bear children
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Corinna Hinton
Corinna Hinton was an enslaved woman who bore several children with the Richmond slave trader Silas Omohundro and helped him run his business.
Grace Sherwood
Grace Sherwood was the defendant in colonial Virginia‘s most notorious witch trial, which took place in Princess Anne County in 1706.
Lucy Burwell
Lucy Burwell is best known for rejecting the fervent and sometimes menacing courtship of Governor Sir Francis Nicholson, contributing to a petition against Nicholson and Queen Anne ultimately removing him from office.
Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children.
Carrie Buck
Carrie Buck was the first person involuntarily sterilized under Virginia’s eugenics laws. In Buck v. Bell (1927), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Virginia’s law was constitutional and that Buck should be sterilized, the first of approximately 8,300 performed under state law between 1927 and 1972.
Janice Mirikitani
Award-winning poet, dancer, activist and educator Janice Mirikitani (1942–2021) was internationally known and respected for her life-long commitment to addressing the horrors of war and for advocating against institutional racism and the enslavement of women and the poor.
Reema Zaman
Reema Zaman is the author of the memoir, I am Yours, where she shares a story of hope as she guides the reader through her life.
Yvonne Swan
When she was found guilty of murdering her attacker and known predator in 1972, she was convicted by an all-white jury and became a symbol of women’s self-defense
Annie Tocker
New Zealand librarian, Methodist deaconess, nurse and child welfare officer