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African-American schoolteachers

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Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
Booker T. Washington
African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955)
Archie Williams
American sprinter (1915–1993)
Lynne Thigpen
American actress (1948–2003)
Jessie Redmon Fauset
American novelist (1882–1961)
Mamie Till
African American schoolteacher
Jahana Hayes
American politician and educator
Donald Milford Payne
American politician (1934-2012)
Katie Hall
American congresswoman for Indiana (1938-2012)
Erica Lee Carter
American politician
Geraldine Claudette Darden
African-American mathematician
Olivia Hooker
psychologist and professor (1915-2018)
Susie Taylor
African American nurse & writer (1848-1912)
Charlotte E. Ray
American lawyer
Maritcha Remond Lyons
American educator, civic leader, writer (1848-1929)
Clara Belle Williams
first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University
James Edwin Campbell
American poet, editor, short story writer and educator (1860–1896)
Karen Lewis
American labor leader (1953-2021)
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor
founder of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Myra Hemmings
American actress (1895-1968)
Leo Terrell
American civil rights attorney and radio host
Essie Mae Washington-Williams
American school teacher and writer (1925–2013)
Julie Hayden
American teacher
Cordelia Ray
American political activist (1849–1916)
Norma Elizabeth Boyd
American sorority founder
Conya Doss
American musician
Sadie L. Adams
African-American suffragette and club woman (1872-1945)