Grace Finley Price
Trailblazing African American entrepreneur in Ohio
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Genevieve Sanchez
American softball player
Sherlie Hereford Rainey
Sherlie Hereford Rainey (3 Feb. 1939-7 Aug. 1992), mayor of Woodmere (1985-89), was the first African-American woman to hold a mayoral position in Cuyahoga County. Also an athlete, Rainey set an American record for the standing long jump (1958) and was National Amateur Athletic Union champion of that event for 3 years. She was elected to the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.
Jackie Mitchell
17-year-old pitcher who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
Eleanor Egg
American track and field athlete.
Elisabeth Moore
The first player to win the United States Women’s Singles lawn-tennis championship four times (1896, 1901, 1903, and 1905).
Joetta Clark Diggs
American track and field champion
CeCe Mazyck
Military veteran and Paralympian
Isabel Ramsay Letham
Australian surfing pioneer
Anne Brunell
Australian gold medal winning swimmer, and Vice President of the Amputees Association.