Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936-February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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Williana Burroughs (January 2, 1882- December 24, 1945) was a teacher, activist, and politician who organized poor, Black, and immigrant communities in New York. She ran for public office on the Communist Party (CP) ticket, and spent almost 12 years of her life working in the Soviet Union.
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Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson (December 15, 1895 – December 13, 1965) was an African-American anthropologist, author, actress, and civil rights activist.
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Kathleen Collins (March 18, 1942– September 18, 1988), born Kathleen Conwell, was an African-American filmmaker, author and playwright who was best known for her film Losing Ground (1982), which was one of the first Black woman-directed feature films to be released in the United States.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter (May 31, 1947 - September 23, 2004) was a Black lesbian feminist, author, editor of Ms. Magazine, and the first and only president of the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO).
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