Virginia Estelle Randolph
Virginia Estelle Randolph, born of formerly enslaved parents in Richmond, was a pioneering educator, community health advocate, organizational leader, and humanitarian.
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Sarah Lee Fain
Sarah Lee Fain was one of the first two women elected to serve in the Virginia General Assembly following ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Frances Farmer
Frances Farmer was a law librarian and the first female law professor at the University of Virginia.
Cornelia Storrs Adair
Cornelia Storrs Adair served as president of the National Education Association (NEA), a teachers’ union, from 1927 to 1928, the first classroom teacher to be elected to that position.
Barbara Rose Johns
Barbara Rose Johns Powell conceived and executed a 1951 student walkout at the all-Black Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, precipitating one of five legal cases that would be consolidated into the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned segregated public schools.
Aline E Black
Aline E. Black was a teacher known primarily as a principal in a civil rights court case on equal pay.
Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité
She became the first Empress of Haiti after her marriage to General Jean-Jacques Dessalines who crowned himself emperor of Haiti on October 8, 1804.
Pola Nirenska
Modern dancer and choreographer
Martha Putney
African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II
Emilie Bethmann
Emilie Bethmann (1844-1928) and her daughter Freida Bethmann (1868-1951) were pioneers in Boston’s kindergarten education.