Meridel Le Sueur

For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.

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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.

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Coral Aguirre

Argentine storyteller who became a Mexican citizen, playwright, theater director, musician, and professor of literature and acting at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL)

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