Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman appointed to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continues to fight for DC statehood in her third decade as a congresswoman.
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Mary P Burrill
Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.
Nkenge Touré
Nkenge Touré is an activist whose expansive collection of speeches and written works confront issues around reproductive justice, Black feminism, and women’s rights.
Izora Armstead
American singer best known as one half of the duo Two Tons O’ Fun, which later became The Weather Girls.
Clara Byrd Baker
American educator and community leader
Amanimalel
7th century BCE queen of Napata, a kingdom of Kush.
Amanishakheto
Kandake (queen) of the kingdom of Kush in ancient Nubia.
Amanitore
Meroe kandake (queen) in ancient Nubia
Shirley Graham Du Bois
African-American writer, composer, educator, and civil rights activist
Blanche Armwood
African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist