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.
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.
Misty Copeland
Renowned American ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Maria
Maria was a slave and possibly the leader of a 1716 slave rebellion on Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies in 1716.
Dr Mary Logan Reddick
African-American neuroembryologist who earned her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1944.
Rita F Dove
American poet who served as Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress.
Dinah Washington
American vocalist and pianist; prominent black female recording artist in the 1950s.