Hannah Tomiko Holmes
Educator and disability rights activist
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Dr Agnes D Lattimer
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
Dr Alice Bennett
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
African-American educator, speaker, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman
Pelagia Melgenak
Pelagia Melgenak’s story shows a grit and determination to survive as an individual but also as a vessel to help a culture survive.
Billie Barry
Irish performer and stage school founder
Dr Matilda Chaplin Ayrton
1800s British doctor
Sallie Wyatt Stewart
African American educator, real estate broker, civil rights activist, and community leader based in Evansville, Indiana.
Eleanor Barbour Cook
American paleontologist
Sue Kunitomi Embrey
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.