Maria Louise Baldwin
Educator and activist Maria Louise Baldwin belonged to a generation of Bostonian Black women highly connected to circles of educated Black and White activists.
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Marian Anderson
Civil rights icon and African American contralto, who had a ground-breaking career in classical music from the mid-1920s through the late 1950s.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.
Dr Marie Maynard Daly
Overcoming the dual hurdles of racial and gender bias, Marie Maynard Daly conducted important studies on cholesterol, sugars, and proteins. In addition to her research, she was committed to developing programs to increase the enrollment of minority students in medical school and graduate science programs.
Dr Paula T Hammond
In her lab at MIT she creates technologies so small that you cannot see them with most microscopes—until they save a soldier’s life on the battlefield or illuminate light bulbs using stored solar power.
Stormé DeLarverie
Stormé DeLarverie was a butch lesbian with zero tolerance for discrimination, or as she called it, “ugliness.” During an era that often showed hostility towards LGBTQ people, and queer women in particular, DeLarverie provided safety and acceptance.
Augusta Savage
Key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, an influential sculptor and educator
Harriet Jacobs
Author of the autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” The book, now an “American classic,” gives a plain account of the horrors of slavery and her path to freedom.
Lucy Parsons
Prominent African-American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist
Kassi
As the principal wife and paternal cousin of Mansa Suleyman, Kassi co-ruled the Kingdom of Mali jointly with her husband in the mid-1300s.