Modjeska Monteith Simkins
Influential civil rights activist and public health advocate
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Lucy Goode Brooks
African American woman born into slavery who became the visionary founder of the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia.
Mary Cardwell Dawson
Opera singer and arts activist in 1900s Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
Juanita Abernathy
American civil rights activist and educator
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.
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.
Ella Baker
Leading African-American civil rights and human rights activist throughout much of the twentieth century.
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.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Alice H Parker
African-American inventor who patented the modern central heating gas furnace, revolutionizing home heating systems.