Gloria Naylor

American novelist best known for her debut work, “The Women of Brewster Place” (1982), which won the National Book Award for First Novel in 1983.

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Hallie Quinn Brown

African American educator, writer, and women’s rights activist, renowned for her contributions to education and the fight for racial and gender equality.

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Ella Baker

Leading African-American civil rights and human rights activist throughout much of the twentieth century.

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Huda Sha’arawi

Pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, becoming a central figure in Egypt’s early feminist movement.

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Maria

Maria was a slave and possibly the leader of a 1716 slave rebellion on CuraƧao in the Dutch West Indies in 1716.

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