Pauline Adams
Irish-born American suffrage activist
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Oney Judge
Oney Judge was the enslaved personal attendant of Martha Custis Washington when she ran away from the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796.
Odessa Pittard Bailey
Odessa Pittard Bailey was a civic leader in western Virginia.
Angela Russell
Irish physician and social reformer
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton was a civic leader who worked toward a more inclusive democracy in Roanoke, Virginia.
Katherine Wilson
Irish republican, civil servant, and teacher
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms.
Virginia Estelle Randolph
Virginia Estelle Randolph, born of formerly enslaved parents in Richmond, was a pioneering educator, community health advocate, organizational leader, and humanitarian.
Ruth Harvey Charity
Ruth LaCountess Harvey Wood Charity was a civil rights activist and defense attorney.
Sarah Patton Boyle
Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).