Wyomia Tyus
The first person to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter dash.
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Barbara Earl Thomas
The former Executive Director of Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum, Barbara Earl Thomas is far more than an institutional administrator. She is also an inspiring lecturer on the topics of art and culture and — as the University of Washington Press notes — a “painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility.”
Dr Dorothy Mann
American public health expert, consumer advocate, and civic activist
Patricia Roberts Harris
First African-American woman to serve as a US Ambassador
Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Ben-Yúsuf was one of the “New Women” who joined the paid labor force in the 1890s. She was in the vanguard of women who became professional photographers as magazines reached massive circulation figures, and photographs supplanted drawn illustration art.
Marilyn Nance
African-American photojournalist
Alice Ballard
Alice Ballard was the youngest of seven children born to John and Amanda Ballard, the first African Americans to own a home above the Malibu coastline.
Erna P O’Harris
Erna P. Harris (1908–95) was an African American columnist who defended Japanese Americans.
Lena Olive Smith
Lena Olive Smith was a prominent civil rights lawyer and activist during the 1920s and 1930s.
Ethel Ray Nance
Ethel Ray Nance was an African American activist and writer. During the 1920s, she broke various racial and gender barriers in Minnesota, participated in the Harlem Renaissance movement, worked as a secretary for the National Urban League, and contributed to Opportunity magazine.