Eva Tanguay
Eccentric comedienne and beloved musical comedy star on the American stage
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Sissieretta Jones
Sissieretta Jones sang for kings, presidents, and to audiences around the world, becoming the highest paid African-American entertainer of the late 19th century.
Lena Horne
Legendary singer/actor Lena Horne has fought against racism in the entertainment industry throughout her career and against racial discrimination in this country throughout her life.
Billie Barry
Irish performer and stage school founder
Hana Shimozumi
As a young opera star, Shimozumi encountered frequent incredulity at her unaccented English from those who assumed she a Japanese national. During World War II she was sent to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center solely because of her Japanese ancestry.
Kate Graham Cook
James Cook and Kate Graham first discovered the fossil deposits later to become known as Agate Fossil Beds.
Betty Reid Soskin
Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.
Katharine Lee Bates
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.
Marian Anderson
Civil rights icon and African American contralto, who had a ground-breaking career in classical music from the mid-1920s through the late 1950s.
Célestine Galli-Marié
1800s French singer