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South African jazz singer and composer, and anti-apartheid activist

Congolese writer and activist Léonie Abo is best known for her role in the 1963-65 Kwilu rebellion.

Khoikhoi woman who was kidnapped, sold into slavery and exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus

The last person executed in Boston as a witch

1700s Irish sex worker, brothel-keeper, and memoirist

Indian activist

South African journalist and activist

African American sex worker living in Skagway, Alaska during the gold rush

American painter and theater designer

Hana Assafiri is a compassionate and unspoken hero within the Victorian community.