Rosina Corrothers Tucker

A civil rights and labor activist, Rosina Corrothers Tucker played a pivotal role in the creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and its International Ladies’ Auxiliary Order.

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Jane Webb

Jane Webb was a free, mixed-race woman in colonial Virginia who sued her husband’s enslaver when he refused to live up to the terms of a contract that would have freed her husband and the bound Webb children.

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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.

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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.

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Mary Aggie

Mary Aggie was an enslaved woman who became a principal in a court case that changed Virginia‘s statute law.

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