Dr Agnes D Lattimer
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
African-American educator, speaker, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman
Pelagia Melgenak’s story shows a grit and determination to survive as an individual but also as a vessel to help a culture survive.
Irish performer and stage school founder
1800s British doctor
African American educator, real estate broker, civil rights activist, and community leader based in Evansville, Indiana.
American paleontologist
Sue Kunitomi Embrey understood the need to recognize and protect places that are powerful parts of our national memory and used her civic voice to advocate for those places.
Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.