Bessie Burke
Bessie Bruington Burke was the first African American teacher and principal hired in the Los Angeles public school system. Burke held influential, powerful, and redeeming responsibilities for over 40 years in California.
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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.
Ernestine Anderson
Ernestine Anderson launched her amazing career as a jazz singer while still a teenaged Seattle high school student back in the 1940s.
Nora B Adams
Nora B. Adams was an African American Seattle Public School principal who left more than $1 million in her estate to three of her major interests.
Dr Blanche Sellers Lavizzo
Dr. Blanche Sellers Lavizzo was the first African American woman pediatrician in the state of Washington.
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.