Addie Waites Hunton
NAACP field organizer from 1921 to 1924, YMCA worker and writer
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Irene Morgan
On July 16, 1944, Irene Morgan refused to surrender her seat to white passengers and move to the back of a Greyhound bus while traveling from Gloucester County, Virginia, to Baltimore, Maryland. She was arrested and convicted in the Virginia courts for violating a state statute requiring racial segregation on all public vehicles. The NAACP appealed her case to the Supreme Court. On June 3, 1946, by a 6-to-1 decision, the Court ruled that the Virginia statute was unconstitutional when applied to interstate passengers on interstate motor vehicles because it put an undue burden on interstate commerce.
Jessie Redmon Fauset
As the literary editor of The Crisis (1919–1926) she introduced many Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, to the public, in addition to being a writer herself.
Statia Hopefield
1700s enslaved woman in Canada who fought for her and her family’s freedom
Billie Holiday
Jazz and blues icon
Dr Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
US civil rights activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and one of three women chosen to be a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
Mildred Bond Roxborough
Mildred Bond Roxborough was a longtime secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and traveled throughout the South regularly to help with organizing.
Julia Matilda Burns
US civil rights activist
Rosie Head
US civil rights activist
Marilyn Luper Hildreth
US civil rights activist