The Winnsboro Easter Rock Ensemble, under the direction of Hattie Addison Burkhalter, maintains a rare women-led African American traditional spiritual ritual, rooted in both Christian worship and West African ring shout tradition.
McKen has sung traditional sacred Yoruba music since she was 14 and is recognized as a Priestess of Yemonja.
Helen Timmons Henderson served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1924–1925), one of the first two women elected to that body (the other was Norfolk‘s Sarah Lee Fain).
Foundress of Termonmore and saint in the Irish tradition
Cécile Fatiman was a mambo (a vodou priestess) who is believed to have formed networks on the island of Haiti that would transfer information from plantation to plantation.
African Methodist Episcopal preacher
When the Union United Methodist Church was located in Lower Roxbury in 1916, the Women’s Home Missionary Society, under the leadership of Hattie B. Cooper (1862–1949), provided services for the growing population of African Americans in that area.
Eliza Clapp (1811-1888) was a prominent member of the Transcendentalist movement in 19th century New England and a poet and author.
British playwright, actress and bestselling novelist
Aboriginal Australian translator and missionary