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Betty Reid Soskin

Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.

Prominent abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. During the Civil War, Forten taught newly freed African-Americans on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Her writings and poetry showed her commitment to battling racial and gender inequality.

Dawn Langley Simmons

One of the first individuals to receive gender-affirming surgery in the United States, Simmons was also well-known in Charleston society for her marriage to John Paul Simmons. Theirs was reportedly the first documented interracial marriage in South Carolina.

Eliza Scidmore

Eliza Scidmore traveled through Alaska’s Inside Passage in 1883. Her articles and travel logs shared the grandeur and adventure of Alaska with western tourists, ushering in a new era of travel and tourism to the Alaska territory.

Lorena Hickok

Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt’s devoted friend, mentor, and pioneering journalist, wrote Reluctant First Lady, a biography of Eleanor, and six children’s biographies.

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.

Ann Axtell Morris

American archaeologist Ann Axtell knew she wanted to study ancient cultures from the time she was six years old.

Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin

American suffragist and writer

Tilly Aston

Tilly Aston, ‘Australia’s Own Helen Keller’ was a blind writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers and later went on to establish and become secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.