Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.

Harriet Tubman escaped enslavement and helped others reach freedom.

A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the 19th century.

Julia Ward Howe was a writer, lecturer, abolitionist and suffragist.

Prudence Crandall bravely defied prevailing patterns of racial discrimination when she opened one of the first schools for African American girls in Connecticut in 1833.

Clara Barton was an educator, humanitarian, and founder of the American Red Cross.

Isabella “Belle” Boyd was was one of the most famous female Confederate spies, hailed by some as the “Cleopatra of Secession.”