Mildred Davenport
Trailblazing dancer and renowned dance instructor.
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Muriel Snowden
Co-founded Freedom House, Inc., a Boston nonprofit community-based organization dedicated to human rights and advocacy for African-Americans in Boston. Her leadership moved Freedom House into areas of urban renewal, minority employment, and educational equality for children as well as being a positive force for interracial cooperation
Pauline Hopkins
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”
Jessie Garnett
Boston’s first African American woman dentist
Dorothy West
Harlem Renaissance novelist
Elma Lewis
Founded the National Center for Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) in 1968 eighteen years after opening the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (ELSFA) in Boston
Fern Cunningham
American sculptor
Donna Summer
The Queen of Disco who won five Grammys and sold more than one hundred million records worldwide.
Jessye Norman
African-American opera and jazz singer
Leontyne Price
Grammy-winning African-American opera singer