Mitsuye Yamada

Acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada’s work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

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Ida Lee

Ida Lee was an historical geographer who wrote several books on maritime exploration in the Pacific.

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Jessie Redmon Fauset

As the literary editor of The Crisis (1919–1926) she introduced many Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, to the public, in addition to being a writer herself.

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