Writer Archives - Page 4 of 129

Sara Edén Alatorre

Mexican editor, translator, short story writer, essayist and poet

Alice Anderson

Early 1900s Australian mechanic and garage owner

A noted educator and nationally known club woman, Bowser developed night classes and led summer teaching institutes throughout the state of Virginia for African American educators. She would later become a founder and president of the Virginia State Teachers Association.

Amy Meyer

The “Mother of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area,” Amy Meyer is a Bay Area conservationist who helped forge local and national support to preserve the land at the Golden Gate as a national park in the 1970s.

Joyce Ladner

Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner grew up in Mississippi and became civil rights activists as teenagers in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).