Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Harlem Renaissance poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor
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Sarah Caldwell
As founder of The Opera Company, Sarah Caldwell (1924-2006) staged and conducted full-fledged performances of operas at various venues in Boston from 1957 to 1991.
Amy Brooks
American author and illustrator.
Anna Bobbitt Gardner
In 1932, Anna Bobbitt Gardner (1901-97) became the first African American women to be awarded a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.
Delia Derbyshire
Delia Derbyshire is best known for her work with the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop and creating the famous Dr Who theme music.
Gladys A Moore Perdue
Boston organist
Maud Cuney Hare
Concert pianist, composer, teacher, lecturer, and author; director and founder of the Allied Arts Center and author of Negro Musicians and Their Music, a comprehensive survey of African-American music, as well as an arts critic and specialist in Creole music.
Donna Summer
The Queen of Disco who won five Grammys and sold more than one hundred million records worldwide.
Alma Gluck
Romanian-American singer
Théroigne de Méricourt
A prosperous peasant who was inspired by the ideals of the Revolution, she found herself in Paris right before the fall of the Bastille. Having had numerous lovers and suffered the death of a child, she felt compelled to fight for the downtrodden.