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Martha Berry (1866-1942)
Martha Berry was the founder of the Berry Schools for academically able but economically poor children...
Alice Coachman (b. 1923)
Few athletes have dominated a sport as thoroughly as Alice Coachman dominated the high jump. Named to...
Grace Towns Hamilton (1907-1992)
The first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly, Grace Towns Hamilton was also...
Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700-ca. 1763)
Known as Coosaponakeesa among the Creek Indians, Mary Musgrove served as a cultural liaison between colonial...
Nancy Hart (ca. 1735-1830)
Georgia's most acclaimed female participant during the Revolutionary War (1775-83) was Nancy Hart. A...
Edith McGuire (b. 1944)
Edith McGuire became the top sprinter of the 1960s, winning six Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships...
Cheryl Haworth (b. 1983)
Often called "the strongest woman in the United States," Cheryl Haworth is a competitive weight lifter...
Frances Newman (1883-1928)
Frances Newman was a novelist, translator, critic, book reviewer, and librarian. Writing within a feminist...
Celestine Sibley (1914-1999)
Celestine Sibley, a renowned southern author, journalist, and syndicated columnist, reported for the...
Henrietta Dozier (1872-1947)
Henrietta Dozier was the first female architect in Georgia and the first woman in the South to receive...
Naomi Chapman Woodroof (1900-1989)
Naomi Chapman Woodroof, the daughter of pioneer settlers on the Snake River in Idaho, was also a pioneer...
Hazel Raines (1916-1956)
An accomplished aviator, Hazel Raines was the first woman in Georgia to earn a pilot's license. She began...
Alma Thomas (1891-1978)
A prominent abstract painter of the 1960s and 1970s, Alma Thomas was the first African American woman...
Mattiwilda Dobbs (b. 1925)
Mattiwilda Dobbs's exceptional vocal gifts and musical skill enabled her to cross color barriers to become...
Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933)
The founder and principal of the Haines Institute in Augusta for fifty years (1883-1933), Lucy Craft...
Nellie Peters Black (1851-1919)
Mary Ellen Peters Black (known throughout her life as "Nellie") personified the early club woman movement...
Mary Latimer McLendon (1840-1921)
Mary Latimer McLendon, along with her older sister Rebecca Latimer Felton, was a leader in the prohibition...
C. Mildred Thompson (1881-1975)
C. Mildred Thompson, a prominent historian, educator, and feminist, made a name for herself not only...
Lillian Smith (1897-1966)
Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly...
Charlayne Hunter-Gault (b. 1942)
Charlayne Hunter-Gault holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African...
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Alice Walker is an African American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most...
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
Margaret Mitchell was the author of Gone With the Wind, one of the most popular books of all time. The...
Jean Childs Young (1933-1994)
Jean Childs Young was the first lady of Atlanta during the mayoral terms of her husband, Andrew Young...
Lugenia Burns Hope (1871-1947)
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer....
Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966)
Natasha Trethewey, an English professor at Emory University in Atlanta, was named poet laureate of the...
Anne Cox Chambers (b. 1919)
Anne Cox Chambers is a primary owner of Cox Enterprises, a privately held media empire that includes...
Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914)
Ellen Axson Wilson was the first wife of Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States....
Mildred Seydell (1889-1988)
Mildred Seydell broke the gender barrier and was one of the first women to work as a newspaper journalist...
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Rosalynn Carter (b. 1927)
Rosalynn Carter, wife of the thirty-ninth U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, forged a career in public service...
Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930)
Rebecca Latimer Felton, who died in 1930 at the age of ninety-four, lived a life that was as full as...
Helen Douglas Mankin (1894-1956)
Helen Douglas Mankin, lawyer and legislator, was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Georgia,...
Susie King Taylor (1848-1912)
Susie Baker King Taylor was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves...
Louise Suggs (b. 1923)
Louise Suggs was one of the charter members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), and her...
Nancy Lopez (b. 1957)
The youngest woman ever to be inducted into the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame,...
Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)
The British actress and writer Fanny Kemble's infamous entanglement with Georgia began in the 1830s when...
Emily Woodward (1885-1970)
Emily Woodward was a prominent female journalist in the early twentieth-century South who became an outspoken...
Leila Ross Wilburn (1885-1967)
The practice of Atlanta architect Leila Ross Wilburn emerged from and reflected the values of the Craftsman...
Ellamae Ellis League (1899-1991)
Ellamae Ellis League practiced as an architect in Macon for more than fifty years, from 1922 until she...
Clermont Lee (b. 1914)
Clermont Lee, one of the earliest women active in landscape architecture in Georgia, was known as the...
Georgia Douglas Johnson (ca. 1877-1966)
Georgia Douglas Johnson was an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the literary and cultural...
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939)
Styled as the "Mother of the Blues," Gertrude Pridgett Rainey, better known as "Ma" Rainey, was one of...
Jessye Norman (b. 1945)
The soprano Jessye Norman, a Georgia native, has performed at all the world's leading opera houses. She...
Isa-Beall Williams Neel (1861-1953)
Isa-Beall Williams Neel was an outstanding educator and a gifted speaker and leader. She was president...
Wessie Connell (1915-1987)
For almost fifty years, Wessie Connell introduced generations of Grady County children to the power of...
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)
Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon Low was the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America...
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin (1897-1988)
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating...
Mary Frances Early (b. 1936)
On August 16, 1962, Mary Frances Early became the first African American to graduate from the University...
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and a longtime resident...
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists...
Frances Pauley (1905-2003)
Frances Pauley, social activist and political organizer, devoted her life to the battle against prejudice...
Jane Hurt Yarn (1924-1995)
Jane Hurt Yarn was a pioneering conservationist and environmentalist who single-handedly helped save...
Leah Ward Sears (b. 1955)
Leah Ward Sears served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 2005 until 2009. During...
Leila Denmark (1898-2012)
Leila Denmark was the oldest practicing pediatrician in the United States when she retired in 2001 at...
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
As a proponent of civil and human rights, Coretta Scott King helped her husband, the Reverend Dr. Martin...
Mary Telfair (1791-1875)
A member of the distinguished Telfair family of Georgia, Mary Telfair is perhaps best remembered as the...
Viola Ross Napier (1881-1962)
Viola Ross Napier was elected to Georgia's House of Representatives in 1922, only two years after the...
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