Amanda Morgan
In 2022, Morgan achieved a historic milestone by becoming the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s first Black woman ballerina in its fifty year existence.
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Zanele Muholi
Visual activist who documents Black gay, lesbian, transgender, and intersex people in South Africa.
Elizabeth Catlett
In a career spanning more than 70 years, Elizabeth Catlett has created sculptures that celebrate the heroic strength and endurance of African-American and Mexican working-class women.
Ajena Cason Rogers
History interpreter for the National Park Service (US)
Marlisa L Smith
US National Security Agency Chief of Staff
Eliza Ann Gardner
Remembered as someone “pointed and convincing in speech, winning in manner, [and] overpowering in appeal,” community and religious leader Eliza Ann Gardner exemplified the social activist tradition within African-American churches.
Elizabeth Eckford
One of the Little Rock Nine who helped integrate American schools
Jacqueline K Van Landingham
She was one of the first African Americans at the CIA to lose her life in service to her country.
Alice Casneau
A successful dressmaker and clubwoman, Alice Casneau had an active professional and public life in Boston during the turn of the 20th century.
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white person months before Rosa Parks.