Ellen Courtenay
1800s Irish woman who denounced a man who seduced, impregnated and abandoned her
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Helena Liu
As an intersectional feminist academic and activist, Helena Liu set up Disorient, a website providing important learning, teaching and research resources on feminisms, intersectionality and activisms.
Elizabeth Mason
In May of 1854, 90-year-old Elizabeth Mason, a “free woman of color” from Campbell County, Virginia, appeared before a local Justice of the Peace to apply for a military widow’s pension.
Grace Sherwood
Grace Sherwood was the defendant in colonial Virginia‘s most notorious witch trial, which took place in Princess Anne County in 1706.
Eva C McNally
Yosemite National Park Park Ranger 1926-1927
Kitty Foster
Kitty Foster was a free African American woman who owned property just south of the University of Virginia, the site of which has been memorialized by the school.
Lucy Burwell
Lucy Burwell is best known for rejecting the fervent and sometimes menacing courtship of Governor Sir Francis Nicholson, contributing to a petition against Nicholson and Queen Anne ultimately removing him from office.
Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children.
Sally Cottrell Cole
Sally Cottrell was an enslaved maid and seamstress in 1800s Virginia.
Ann Banks Davis
Ann Banks Davis was an enslaved woman who lived in Virginia in the 1800s