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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
At one time, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the most well-known Black woman in the country. She was an educator, pioneering journalist, an early leader in the civil rights movement and a founder of the NAACP. As an ardent suffragist, she worked with both white and African-American suffrage organizations. Wells-Barnett was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize “for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
Vilma Socorro Martinez
Ambassador Vilma Socorro Martinez, a labor lawyer, who as president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, helped secure an extension of the Voting Rights Act to include Mexican Americans among the groups it protected. In 1975, Congress agreed to extend the existing provisions of the Voting Rights Act to include Mexican Americans. Later, Martin served as the first woman U.S. ambassador to Argentina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilma_Socorro_Martínez
Sojourner Truth
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Adella Hunt Logan
Adella Hunt Logan was an African American teacher, clubwoman, and suffragist known primarily for her activist work in education, public health, and women’s rights.
Adella Hunt was born during the Civil War (1861-65) to a white planter and a free woman of African and Cherokee descent. After attending W. H. Bass Academy in Hancock County, she continued her education at Atlanta University, earning an upper normal division diploma in 1881. That same year, she began her teaching career at American Missionary Association in Albany.
Tuskegee Institute
In 1883 Hunt became only the second woman to join the faculty at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where she forged close friendships with the Institute’s founder and principal Booker T. Washington, fellow teacher George Washington Carver, and W. E. B. DuBois, cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Though Du Bois declined a teaching appointment at Tuskegee, Hunt continued a lifelong correspondence with him. After undertaking additional coursework at the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Institute in New York, she completed a master’s thesis under DuBois’s direction and was awarded an honorary master’s degree by the trustees at A