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Anna DeCosta Banks (September 2, 1869 – November 29, 1930) was an American nurse, and the first head nurse at the Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina. Banks is known for her nursing career, as well as a later position as…
1879–1957
Anna Easter Brown (April 13, 1879 – March 5, 1957) was a part of the original nine group of sixteen founders in Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. It was the first sorority founded by African-American women students. It has had a continuing legacy of generating…
1857–1955
Anna Evans Murray (1857–1955) was an American civic leader, educator, and early advocate of free kindergarten and the training of kindergarten teachers. In 1898 she successfully lobbied Congress for the first federal funds for kindergarten classes, and…
1855–1932
Anna H. Jones (September 2, 1855 – March 7, 1932) was a Canadian-born American clubwoman, suffragist, and educator based in later life in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Anna Sophie Jobarteh is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Ruth Kirby on the BBC school-based drama Waterloo Road. She also played a role in thriller series Paradox in 2009, when she played the role of Dionne Hudson.
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Anna Johnson Dupree (November 27, 1891 - February 19, 1977) was a Houston businesswoman and philanthropist. In 1952, she and her husband opened the Eliza Johnson Home for Aged Negros. In addition, they donated money to the Houston College of Negroes.
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Anna Johnson Julian, born Anna Roselle Johnson (November 24, 1903 – July 3, 1994) was the first African-American woman awarded a PhD in sociology by the University of Pennsylvania (1937), a civic activist, and fourth national president of Delta Sigma…
1858–1964
Cooper’s 1892 book A Voice from the South argued for Black women’s education and leadership, and she later became one of the first Black women to earn a doctorate.
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Anna M. Mangin (October 1844 - March 1, 1931) was an American inventor, educator, and caterer. She invented a kitchen tool she called a pastry fork in 1891. This was different from the eating utensil also known as a pastry fork.
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Anna Minerva Henderson (August 8, 1887 – 1987) was a teacher, civil servant, and poet from Saint John, New Brunswick. According to the New Brunswick Black History Society, during Canada's centennial in 1967 she published a "chaplet" containing 22 poems…
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Anna Simms Banks (1862–1923) was an American educator and political figure born in Brandenburg, Kentucky. On March 3, 1920, Anna became the first African-American female elected as a delegate at the 7th Congressional District Republican Convention in…
1907–1997
Anne Cooke Reid (née Anna Margaret Cooke; October 6, 1907 – 1997) was an American stage director and academic. She founded and led theater departments at historically Black universities including Howard University, where she was the first chairwoman, and…
1920–2001
Anne Gamble Kennedy (September 25, 1920 – June 11, 2001) was an American classical pianist, piano professor, and accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee.
1874–1952
Anne Greenup (born Anna Hurd; May 5, 1874 – March 15, 1952) was the first president of The Coloured Women's Club of Montreal. Greenup was born in Harveysburg, Ohio to Charles Hurd, a schoolteacher from Georgia, and Mahala Jackson from Virginia. She was…
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Anne Harper Charity Hudley is an American linguist who works on language variation in secondary schools. Since 2021, she has been a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
1954–
Georgianne Lundy (born October 18, 1954) is an American conductor and music educator. She founded the Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra and the William Grant Still String Quartet, both specializing in performing chamber music written by black composers, and…
1805–1833
Anne Marie Becraft, also known as Sister Aloysius, O.S.P. (1805 – December 16, 1833) was an African American educator and Religious Sister. Around 1820, she established a school for black girls in Washington, D.C., and later joined the Oblate Sisters of…
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Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener. She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living…
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Anne Williams-Isom (born November 17, 1964) is an American government official, academic, lawyer and former nonprofit executive who served as New York City deputy mayor for health and human services from January 2022 to March 2025. She also served as…
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Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958) is an American historian and law professor. Her scholarly work connects history and legal studies.
1920–1983
Alethia Annette Lewis Hoage Phinazee (July 23, 1920 – September 17, 1983, in Durham, North Carolina) was the first woman and the first black American woman to earn the doctorate in library science from Columbia University. She was called a trailblazer for…
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Annette March-Grier is the president of the Roberta's House Inc., a nonprofit grief support center for children and adults in Baltimore, MD. Her career path includes being a registered nurse and a licensed mortician. Her family owns the largest African…
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Annie Belle Andrews (born 1959) is a former Assistant Administrator for Human Resources Management in the Federal Aviation Administration, and a former Rear Admiral in the US Navy, serving in the areas of manpower, personnel, training and education. She is…
Born 1893
Annie Bizzell Jordan Willis (May 30, 1893 – c. 1977) was an American religious educator and integrationist of the Universalist and later Unitarian Universalist faith traditions. She was the daughter of Rev. Joseph Fletcher Jordan, the third African…
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