Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown was the first African American woman surgeon in the South, the first single woman in Tennessee to be granted the right to become an adoptive parent and the first African American woman to serve in the Tennessee state legislature.
American civil rights activist
She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history.
Louisa Alice Baker was a prolific writer who described herself as ‘bred under the Southern Cross, held cheaply there – and labelled in London’.
Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., became the first African American woman to be appointed dean of an American medical school in 1993.
1800s Mexican-American pioneer, businesswoman, healer, and landowner
Irish performer and stage school founder
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Abedo was among the many who fought back.
Civil rights activist