Dr Blanche Sellers Lavizzo
Dr. Blanche Sellers Lavizzo was the first African American woman pediatrician in the state of Washington.
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Dr Rosalie Reddick Miller
Dr. Rosalie Reddick Miller was the first African American woman dentist to practice in the State of Washington.
Roberta Byrd Barr
Roberta Byrd Barr was an African American educator, civil rights leader, actor, librarian, and television personality.
Esther Hall Mumford
Esther Hall Mumford is a Seattle researcher, a writer, a publisher and an authority on the history of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest.
Royal Alley-Barnes
An accomplished painter and muralist, her background in the arts framed her response to problems as varied as how to reduce youth violence, protect the environmental quality of the Mercer Island Slough, and improve the financial viability of Seattle city-owned arts facilities.
Flo Ware
Florasina Ware was the quintessential activist, known in Seattle for raising a strong and logical voice on behalf of children, the elderly, and the poor.
Dorothy Hollingsworth
Dorothy Hollingsworth was the first Black woman in Washington to serve on a school board.
Ellen Craft
William and Ellen Craft were an enslaved couple from Macon who gained celebrity after a daring, novel, and very public escape in December 1848.
Wyomia Tyus
The first person to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter dash.
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.”