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Through legal and political actions, civil rights activist Dorothy Bigelow Hamm fought for African American equality.

Caroline and Arlington Counties

A leading figure in Newport News, Joseph Thomas Newsome struggled to bring education and voting rights to the African American community.

Newport News

Edna Lewis created nationwide interest in southern cuisine and demonstrated that food could be more than just nourishment, but also a celebration of life.

Orange County

John Cephas has become a world ambassador representing the Virginia Piedmont Blues tradition.

Caroline County

Oliver White Hill served as counsel in the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954.

Richmond

Claudia Alexander Whitworth has worked diligently over the decades to improve the quality of life in Roanoke.

Roanoke

Amaza Lee Meredith broke through racial and gender barriers in architecture and artistic design.

Lynchburg and Petersburg

Willie Lanier broke through racial barriers in professional football by becoming the first African American to play middle linebacker, the position that directs the defense on the field.

Richmond

Physical anthropologist Michael L. Blakey helped analyze and interpret the important evidence uncovered at the African Burial Ground in Manhattan.

Williamsburg

Leland D. Melvin inspires young people and encourages them to aspire to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Lynchburg