Florida J Wolfe
Prominent African-American socialite, cattle rancher, and philanthropist in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, around the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Jennie Dean
Prominent African American educator and church founder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Septima Poinsette Clark
American educator and civil rights activist
Dr Virginia M Alexander
African-American physician, researcher, and public health advocate who broke significant barriers in medicine and academia.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins
Influential civil rights activist and public health advocate
Miriam Makeba
Renowned South African singer and civil rights activist.
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.