Nannie Helen Burroughs - Started trade and vocational schools for women in 1909 in DC., Ella Josephine Baker - Civil Rights Activist largely known for being the advisor for SNCC., Ida B. Wells - An investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. Known for her writings on Anti-lynching. , Dorothy Height - Equal Rights Activist and Women's Rights Activist., Mary Church Terrell - 1st Black woman on the Board of Education in DC, Anna J. Cooper - An author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history., Michelle Obama - An attorney and author who was the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017., Kamala Harris - A politician and attorney serving as the 49th and current vice president of the United States., Henrietta Lacks - The first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research., Shirley Chisolm - 1st Black woman to run for President. Unbought and Unbossed.,

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