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Name Alice Augusta Ball Life July 1892 - December 1916 Nationality African-American Family Ball was 1 of 4 children to James Presley and...

Name Jane Cooke Wright Life November 1919 - February 2013 Nationality American Family Wright's parents, Louis and Corrine, were both...

Name Mamie Phipps Clark Life April 1917 - August 1983 Nationality African-American (her father was from the British West Indies) Family...

Name Flemmie Pansy Kittrell Life December 1904 - October 1980 Nationality African-American Family Kitrell was 1 of 8 children and...

Name Bessie Virginia Blount (aka Bessie Blount Griffin) Life November 1914 - December 2009 Nationality African-American Education Diggs...

Name Dr Jeanne Spurlock Life July 1921 - November 1999 Nationality African-American Family Spurlock was the oldest of 7 children to...

Name Dr Margaret S Collins Life September 1922 - April 1996 Nationality American Family Margaret was the 4th of Rollins and Luella James'...

Name Dr Marie Maynard Daly Life April 1922 - October 2003 Nationality American (father immigrated from the British West Indies) Family...