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WOMEN IN HISTORY
REMEMBERING POWERFUL FIGURES
Alberta Odell Jones
1930 – 1965
Alice Dunnigan
1906 – 1983
Anna Mac Clarke
1919 – 1944
Audrey Louise Ross Grevious
1930 – 2017
Bertha Whedbee
1876 – 1960
Effie Waller Smith
1879 – 1960
Eleanor Young Love
1922 – 2006
Georgia Davis Powers
1923 – 2016
Grace Marilynn James
1923 – 1989
Helen Humes
1913 – 1981
Helen LaFrance Orr
1919 – 2020
Jane Roberta Summers
1895 – 1992
Mae Street Kidd
1909 – 1999
Marilyn Yarbrough Ainsworth
1945-2004
Mary Ann Fisher
1923 – 2004
Mary Cunningham Smith
1842 – 1919
Mary Ellen Britton
1855 – 1925
Mary E. Merritt
1881 – 1953
Murray Atkins Walls
1899 – 1993
Nancy Green
1834 – 1923
Nannie Helen Burroughs
1879 – 1961
Nellie Conley
1873 – 1959
Sara Martin
1884 – 1955
Willa Brown Chappell
1906 – 1992