Lucy Wilmot Smith: journalist, educator, and suffragette

Addie Wyatt, a stalwart, visionary union leader

Dorothy Lee Bolden, founder of the National Domestic Worker’s Union

Lucy Terry, one of America’s earliest Black poets and legal minds

Kittie Knox of cycling fame and fashion

Angelina Weld Grimke, gifted, versatile writer of mixed ancestry and sexuality

Bertha Gober, a civil rights activist with a golden voice and powerful pen

Maude Russell, chorus line dancer and creator of the Charleston

Evelyn Preer, first African American ‘Lady of the Screen’

Vivian Malone, first Black graduate of the University of Alabama

Alma D. Green, co-publisher of ‘The Green Book’

Frederica Douglass Sprague Perry, a pioneer in child welfare

Elizabeth ‘Mum Bett’ Freeman, her lawsuit helped to end slavery in Mass.

Anna Murray Douglass, an abolitionist deserving wider recognition

Trailblazing Black Women: Susie Cayton and Elizabeth Flood

Mother Mathilda Beasley, Georgia’s first Black nun

Virginia Proctor Powell Florence, her degree in library science a first for a Black woman

Margaret Danner, a poet who framed wonderful word structures

Josephine Ruffin, Women’s Club Pioneer

Alice Dunnigan, first Black female reporter to cover the White House

Lois Mailou Jones: Visionary artist with a global perspective

Judge Constance Baker Motley, dismantled Jim Crow laws

Adella Hunt Logan, educator and suffragette

Kathryn Magnolia Johnson, teacher, author, and activist

Dr. Olivia Hooker, first Black woman in the Coast Guard, eyewitness to Tulsa Massacre

Henrietta Duterte, abolitionist and first woman owner of a funeral home

Dr. Ruth Ella Moore, the first Black female natural scientist

Ella Little-Collins, Malcolm X’s resourceful half-sister

Hallie Quinn Brown: A pioneer in Black women’s clubs and teacher

Before Rosa Parks there was Ellen Garrison Jackson