Deb Haaland
Secretary Deb Haaland made history when she became the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.
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Beatriz Aldaco
Mexican writer, editor, columnist and cultural promoter.
Clara Lyle Boone
American composer, instructor, activist, and businesswoman
Ethel L Voynich
Irish novelist, translator, and composer
Fannie Barrier Williams
Civil rights activist who helped found the National League of Colored Women in 1893
Harriet Forten Purvis
American abolitionist and suffragist who co-founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Irene Morgan
On July 16, 1944, Irene Morgan refused to surrender her seat to white passengers and move to the back of a Greyhound bus while traveling from Gloucester County, Virginia, to Baltimore, Maryland. She was arrested and convicted in the Virginia courts for violating a state statute requiring racial segregation on all public vehicles. The NAACP appealed her case to the Supreme Court. On June 3, 1946, by a 6-to-1 decision, the Court ruled that the Virginia statute was unconstitutional when applied to interstate passengers on interstate motor vehicles because it put an undue burden on interstate commerce.
Jessie Redmon Fauset
As the literary editor of The Crisis (1919–1926) she introduced many Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, to the public, in addition to being a writer herself.
Juanita Jackson Mitchell
The NAACP’s first national youth director
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson
NAACP field organizer from 1921 to 1924, YMCA worker and writer