Maria Sanford
One of the first female professors in the United States, Maria Sanford was an English professor at the University of Minnesota for nearly thirty years.
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Alice Van Vechten Brown
Establisher of the first Art History program and Art Museology courses in the United States.
Milagros Benet de Newton
Milagros Benet de Newton was a conservative women’s suffrage leader in Puerto Rico who supported voting rights for educated women.
Dr Paulina Alcocer
Mexican researcher and professor
Violeta Dinescu
Romanian composer, pianist, and professor.
Aimée Wagner y Mesa
German-Mexican actress, researcher and academic
Beatriz Aldaco
Mexican writer, editor, columnist and cultural promoter.
Clara Lyle Boone
American composer, instructor, activist, and businesswoman
Fannie Barrier Williams
Civil rights activist who helped found the National League of Colored Women in 1893
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.