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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

Sallie Wyatt Stewart

African American educator, real estate broker, civil rights activist, and community leader based in Evansville, Indiana.

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.

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.

Sarah Winnemucca

Winnemucca worked as both an interpreter and negotiator between American Indian tribes and the U.S. Army during the “Indian wars” that occured throughout the American West in the decades after the Civil War.

Tilly Aston

Tilly Aston, ‘Australia’s Own Helen Keller’ was a blind writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers and later went on to establish and become secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.