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An advocate for civil rights, Anne Spencer was also a noted poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

Lynchburg

Virginia Estelle Randolph's innovative teaching techniques became the model for African American education throughout the South early in the twentieth century.

Henrico County

Social reformer and activist Mary-Cooke Branch Munford advocated public school reforms, women's rights, and interracial cooperation throughout her life.

Richmond

Bessie Niemeyer Marshall created detailed watercolors of plants as part of a federally funded project that rescued a Petersburg park.

Petersburg

Sarah Garland Boyd Jones was the first African American woman to pass the Virginia Medical Examining Board's examination.

Richmond

Best-selling author Mary Johnston was a leader in the fight for woman suffrage in Virginia.

A highly successful photographer, Frances Benjamin Johnston's many accomplishments included documenting historic buildings of Virginia and the southeastern United States.

Fredericksburg

Artist Nora Houston was a tireless advocate for woman suffrage and social reform.

Richmond

A best-selling novelist, Ellen Glasgow challenged southern social and cultural conventions through her writing and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1942.

Richmond

Sarah Lee Fain was one of the first two women elected to Virginia's General Assembly.

Norfolk