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• Kimberly Clarice Aiken - Miss America 1994 - founder, president of HERO (Homeless Education and Resource Organization)
  

• Theodosia Burr Alston - b. 1783, d. 1812 - daughter of Colonel Aaron Burr (vice-president to Thomas Jefferson and winner of fatal dual with Alexander Hamilton) - wife of Joseph Alston, Governor of South Carolina
  –  Fascinating mystery of Theodosia's death
  –  Oaks Plantation - Theodosia's Georgetown home (now part of Brookgreen Gardens)
  

• Marjorie Amos-Frazier - b. 1926, Manning - first woman elected to the Charleston County Council - first female SC Public Service Commissioner
  

• Augusta Baker - 1911-1998, librarian, storyteller
  –  More info
  –  A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen: A Celebration of Stories - annual event held in Columbia
  

• Mignon Ballard - b. 1934 - author
  

• Anna DeCosta Banks - b. 1869, d. 1930 - nursing pioneer
  

• Margaret Catherine (Kate) Moore Barry - Battle of Cowpens heroine
  

• Charlotta Spears Bass - c. 1874-1969 - newspaper publisher, Civil Rights leader, first African-American woman to run for Vice President of the United States
  

• Mary McLeod Bethune c. 1875-1955 - founded Bethune-Cookman College, National Council for Negro Women
  –  Brief biography
  –  Bethune-Cookman College Collection - overview of collection, Bethune, and her "head-heart-hand" educational philosphy – that is, an equal focus on job training, Christianity, and mastery of at least elementary school subjects
  

• Kitty Black-Perkins - fashion designer
  

• Elizabeth Blackwell - b. 1821, d. 1910 - first fully accredited female physician
  –  More about Elizabeth Blackwell
  

• Ethel Martin Bolden - d. 2002 - librarian
  

• Mary Musgrove Matthews Bosomworth - Coosaponakesee, Queen of the Creeks
  

• Gwen Bristow - b. 1903, d. 1980 - writer
  

• Lila Mae Brock - community leader
  

• Maxine Brown - b. 1939 - soul singer
  
  
• Ruth Ann Butler - founder/director of the Greenville Cultural Exchange Center
  

• Betsy Byars - b. 1928 - author - scroll down
  –  Betsy Byars' website
  

• Maude Callen - b. 1898, d. 1990 - nurse/midwife
  

• Harriet Starr Cannon - b. 1823, d. 1896 - religious leader
  –  More about Harriet Starr Cannon

• Sallie F. Chapin - d. 1896 - author of Fitz-Hugh St. Clair, the South Carolina Rebel Boy

• Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut - b. 1823, d.1866 - wrote a diary of southern life
  –  More about Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut

• Alice Childress - b. 1920, d. 1994 - writer
  –  More about Alice Childress

• Ada Clare - c. 1836, d. 1874 - writer, actor
  

• Septima Poinsette Clark c. 1898-1987 - Civil Rights leader
  –  More about Septima Poinsette Clark

• Queen of the Cofitachiqui - c. 1540
  –  de Soto's encounter with Queen of the Cofitachiqui
  –  More about the Cofitachiqui

• Elizabeth Boatwright Coker - b. 1908, d. 1993 - author, poet, lecturer - scroll down for biography
  

• Affra Harleston Coming - c. 1649-1698 - large landowner including Comingtee Plantation - Was an early settler whom fled Ireland for America in 1670 aboard the ship Carolina. Later built a house in Charleston.
  

• Carol Connor - b.1950, d. 2004 - first woman in South Carolina elected to the circuit court
  

• Margaree Seawright Crosby - b. 1941 - educator
  

• Ann Pamela Cunningham - b. 1816, d. 1875 - Mount Vernon Ladies Association
  –  Portrait - at the South Carolina State House
  –  Rosemont Plantation - birthplace of Ann Pamela Cunningham

• Beryl Dakers - filmmaker, journalist
  

• Beth Daniel - b. 1956 - professional golfer
  

• Nancy Jane Day - b. 1905, d. 1995 - first library supervisor of South Carolina's state schools
  

• Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell - b. 1922 - writer
  

• Nettie DuRant Dickerson - b. 1923 - aviation pioneer and founder of Bankair
  

• Peggy Dillard-Toone - model
  

• Margaret Abner Dixon, Ed.D. - educator, volunteer
  

• "Tillie" Maude Odell Doremus - b. 1870, d. 1937 - actress
  

• Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr - b. 1825, d. 1913 - writer
  –  More about Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr - scroll down
  –  Bibliography of Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr
  

• Hattie Logan Duckett - b. 1896, d.1956 - social worker
  

• Charity Edna Adams Earley - b. 1918, d. 2002 - Lieutenant Colonel, US Army
  –  More about Charity Edna Adams Earley

• Marian Wright Edelman - b. 1939 - founded Children's Defense Fund
  

• Frances Ravenel Smythe Edmunds - founding director of Historic Charleston Foundation
  

• Dr. Irene Dillard Elliott - b. 1893, d. 1978 - first woman to earn Ph.D. from the Univerisity of North Carolina and named University of South Carolina's first dean of women
  –  Founded University of South Carolina's Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
  

• Susannah Smith Elliott - c. 1750 - flag maker
  –  Hut Plantation - Home of Susannah Smith Elliott
  

• Mary Gordon Ellis - b. 1890, d. 1934 - superintendent of Jasper County schools and first women elected to the South Carolina state senate
  

• Lillian Ellison - The Fabulous Moolah - b. 1923, d. 2007 - champion wrestler
  

• Dr. Matilda Arabelle Evans - b. 1870, d. 1935 - first African-American woman licensed as a physician in South Carolina
  –  More about Dr. Matilda Arabelle Evans
  

• The Fabulous Moolah - Lillian Ellison - b. 1923, d. 2007 - champion wrestler
  

• Shannon Faulkner - b. 1975 - first female member of the Corps of Cadets at The Citadel
  

• Lillian Brock Flemming - b. 1949 - mayor pro tempore, Greenville, SC
  

• Ruby Middleton Forsythe - b. 1905 - educator
  

• Kate Fowler - Revolutionary War courier
  

• Rosa Franklin - Georgetown - Washington state's first black female senator
  –  More info
  

• Mary Edna Fraser - silk artist
  

• Grace Beacham Freeman - b. 1916, d. 2002 - poet, South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985-1986
  

• Susan Pringle Frost - b. 1873, d. 1960 - suffragist
  

• Linda Dingle Gadson - social worker
  

• Dr. Naomi Garrett - educator
  

• Lucy McKim Garrison - b. 1842, d. 1877 - editor of Slave Songs of the United States
  

• Emily Geiger - c. 1760 - Revolutionary War courier
  –  More about Emily Geiger
  

• Frances Guignard Gibbes - b. 1870, d. 1948 - first woman to attend South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina)
  –  More about Frances Guignard Gibbes
  

• Sarah Reeve Gibbes - b. 1746, d. 1825 - guardian of several childern during Revolutionary War
  –  Peaceful Retreat Plantation - Home of Sarah Reeve Gibbes
  –  Diary excepts of Sarah Reeve Gibbes
  

• Leeza Gibbons - b. 1957 - entertainer
  –  Leeza Gibbons' web site

• Althea Gibson - b. 1927, d. 2003 - athlete
  –  Detailed article about Althea Gibson
  –  More about Althea Gibson
  –  Tennis record of Althea Gibson
  –  Special recognition of Althea Gibson
  

• Caroline Howard Gilman - b. 1794, d. 1888 - writer
  –  More about Caroline Howard Gilman
  –  Recollections of a Southern Matron written by Caroline Howard Gilman
  

• Maggie Wallace Glover - first black woman to serve in South Carolina's state senate
  

• Vivian Glover - b. 1947 - TV news producer, writer
  

• Lucile "Ludy" Ellerbe Godbold - b. 1900, d. 1981 - first olympiad from South Carolina
  –  More about Lucile Ellerbe Godbold - scroll down
  

• Janie Glymph Goree - b. 1921 - educator, mayor
  

• Dr. Wil Lou Gray - b. 1883, d. 1984 - educator and founder of the Wil Lou Gray Opportunity School
  

• Mary Putnam Gridley - b. 1850, d. 1939 - first woman to be head of a mill in South Carolina
  

• Frances "Fanny" Beal Griffin - c. 1747-1799 - Revolutionary War wagon driver
  

• Alberta Tucker Grimes - organized first SC Head Start program
  

• Sarah Grimke & Angelina Grimke Weld - b. 1792, d. 1873, b. 1805, d. 1879 - activists
  –  More about the Grimke Sisters
  –  More about the Grimke Sisters with portraits

• Lugenia Key Hammond - b. 1897, d. 1991 - community leader
  

• Joyce Hansen - b. 1942 - author
  

• Caroline Etheredge Hembel - b. 1919, d. 2001 - first woman graduate of the Civilian Pilot Training Program at the University of South Carolina
  –  Magazine article - Adobe Reader
  

• Lieutenant Colonel Juanita Redmond Hipps - b. 1913, d. 1979 - army nurse
  

• Maranda Phillips Holmes - advocate for poor
  

• Claire Miller Hopkins - artist
  

• Jean Sanders Hopkins - b. 1931 - nurse
  

• Janice Huff - meteorologist
  

• Jane Edna Hunter - b. 1882, d. 1971 - activist
  

• Charlayne Hunter-Gault - journalist
  

• Anna Vaughan Huntington - b. 1876, d. 1973 - sculptress
  –  Atalaya - Anna's home (now part of Hungtington Beach State Park)
  –  Brookgreen Gardens - founded by Anna Vaughan Huntington and her husband Archer
  

• Alice Wyche Hurley - renaissance woman
  

• Helen von Kolnitz Hyer - b. 1892, d. 1983 - poet, South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974-1983
  

• Mary Jackson - sweetgrass basketmaker
  

• Dr. Sara Dunlap Jackson - b. 1919, d. 1991 - federal archivist
  

• Zelma Jackson-Maine - Beaufort - Chair of the Washington State Commission on African American Affairs, National Association of Black Geologist and Geophysicist founding member, pioneer hydogeologist
  

• Gloria Schumpert James - entrepreneur, businesswoman
  

• Johnnie Ruth Jenkins - advocate
  

• Mamie "Peanut" Johnson - b. 1935 - only woman to pitch for Negro Major League
  

• Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston - c. 1670-1729 - pastelist
  

• Herma Hill Kay - b. 1934 - legal scholar
  –  More about Herma Hill Kay

• Clara Louise Kellogg - b. 1842, d. 1916 - opera singer
  –  More about Clara Louise Kellogg

• Eartha Kitt - b. 1927 - singer, actress
  –  More about Eartha Kitt

• Catherine Stratton Ladd - b. 1808, d. 1899 - writer, educator
  

• Floride Clemson Lee - b. 1842, d. 1871 - kept a wartime diary
  –  Fort Hill Plantation - Home of Floride Clemson Lee
  

• Andie MacDowell - b. 1958 - actress
  

• Judith Giton Manigault - b. 1665, d. 1711 - one of the few women among the 160 persons who settled near present day Charleston under a grant from King Charles II of England
  

• Anna May Manigault-Hurley - b. 1907, d. 1976 - businesswoman
  

• Celia Mann - b. 1799, d. 1867 - freed slave and mid-wife
  

• Linda Martell - b. 1946 - country-western singer
  

• Grace and Rachel Martin - Revolutionary War patriots
  

• Maria Martin - b. 1796, d.1863 - artist
  –  Lecture notes including audio about Maria Martin
  

• Maxine Smith Martin - b. 1944 - president/ceo, Trident Urban League, Inc.
  

• Cassandra Maxwell - d. 1974 - lawyer, advocate
  

• Louisa S. McCord - b. 1810, d. 1879 - first president of Soldier's Relief Association
  –  Woodburn Plantation - Home of Louisa S. McCord
  

• Catherine McKee McCottry, M.D. - b. 1921 - medical doctor
  

• Carrie Allen McCray - b. 1913 - writer
  

• Nina Mae McKinney - b. 1909, d. 1967 - actress
  –  More about Nina Mae McKinney
  –  Special recognition
  

• Janie L. Mines - military, business, and youth leader
  

• Frieda Mitchell - director, United Communities for Child Development
  

• Penina Moise - b. 1797, d. 1880 - writer
  –  More about Penina Moise
  

• Darla Moore - business woman
  –  More about Darla Moore
  

• Rebecca Brewton Motte - b. 1738, d. 1815 - patriot and owner of Fairfield Plantation
  –  More about Rebecca Brewton Motte
  –  More about Mrs. Motte during the American Revolution
  

• Sandra Myers - promoter of African-American cowboy culture
  

• Annie Greene Nelson - b. 1902, d. 1993 - writer
  –  More about Annie Greene Nelson
  

• Mary Simms Oliphant - b. 1891, d. 1988 - historian, author
  

• Kate Salley Palmer - writer and cartoonist
  –  Kate Salley Palmer's website
  –  The papers of Kate Salley Palmer
  

• Peggy Parish - b. 1927, d. 1988 - children's author
  –  More about Peggy Parish including list of Amelia Bedelia titles
  

• Mary-Louise Parker - b. 1964 - actress
  

• Patty Jaye Garrett Patterson - b. 1960 - police cheif
  

• Miss James M. Perry - b. 1894, d. 1964 - first woman admitted to South Carolina Bar Association

• Julia Peterkin - b. 1880, d. 1961 - won Pulitzer Prize for literature
  

• Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens - b. 1832, d. 1899 - strong Confederate supporter
  –  Edgewood Plantation home of Lucy Pickens - house moved to Aiken County and stands today as the Pickens-Salley House
  –  More about Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens
  –  Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens was the only woman to appear on Confederate currency

• Eliza Lucas Pinckney - b. 1722, d. 1793 - indigo planter
  –  More about Eliza Lucas Pinckney

• Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney - b. 1895, d. 1957 - author
  –  Eldorado - Home of Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney
  

• The Pollitzer Sisters - social crusaders - they grew up in downtown Charleston at 5 Pitt Street
  –  Anita L. Pollitzer - b. 1894, d. 1975 - key in getting women the right to vote - recollections by close friend Georgia O'Keefe - click on links for pictures
  –  Collection of Anita L. Pollitzer papers
  

  –  Carrie T. Pollitzer - b. 1881, d. 1974 - worked for the co-education of the College of Charleston

  –  Mabel L. Pollitzer - b. 1885 , d. 1979 - helped get the first public library in Charleston - index of papers
  

• Brenda Pressley - entertainer
  

• Elizabeth Allston Pringle - b. 1845, d. 1921 - author of A Women Rice Planter and rice grower
  –  Chicora Wood Plantation - Plantation of Elizabeth Allston Pringle
  –  White House Plantation - Plantation of Elizabeth Allston Pringle
  

• Sarah Reese - opera singer
  

• Jacqueline Rhinehart - b. 1958 - VP of marketing, black music, universal records
  

• Anne Worsham Richardson - b. 1922 - artist
  

• Dorcas Nelson Richardson - b. 1741, d. 1834 - Revolutionary War wife
  –  Big Home Plantation - Home of Dorcas Nelson Richardson
  

• Velma L. Richardson - b. 1951 - Brigadier General, US Army
  

• Bernice Robinson - educator
  

• Bernice Stokes Robinson - b. 1914 - educator
  

• Marguerite Eulalie Chaffe Salley - b. 1883, d. 1975 - leader for women's rights and a pioneer in Aiken real estate
  –  Eulalie Salley purchased Edgewood Plantation and moved the house to Aiken County where is still stands as the Pickens-Salley House
  

• Dori Sanders - peach farmer, writer
  

• Martha Schofield - b. 1839, d. 1916 - educator
  –  Schofield Normal and Industrial School - founded by Martha Schofield
  

• Fouche'na Everlyne "Che" Sheppard - storyteller
  

• Hilla Sheriff - b. 1903, d. 1988 - public health crusader
  

• Modjeska Monteith Simkins - c. 1899, d. 1992 - Civil Rights leader
  

• Benie Lee Sinclair - b. 1939, d. 2000 - poet, South Carolina Poet Laureate 1986-2000
  

• Marlena Smalls - actress, Gospel singer
  

• Marva Smalls - network executive
  

• Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor - writer, broadcaster
  

• Alice Ravenel Huger Smith - b. 1876, d. 1958 - renaissance artist
  –  More about Alice Ravenel Huger Smith
  

• Myrtle Hall Smith - religious singer
  

• Laodicea "Dicey" Langston Springfield - b. 1759, d. 1837 - Revolutionary War heroine
  

• Lena Jones Wade Springs - d. 1942 - first woman nominated for vice president of the United States
  

• Angie Stone - r&b singer
  

• Lily Strickland - b. 1884, d. 1958 - artist, composer, writer
  

• Diane E. Sumpter - entrepreneur, businesswoman
  

• Jane Black Thomas - b. 1720, d. 1811 - Revolutionary War feminist
  

• Beatrice Rice Thompson - educator
  

• Dorothy Perry Thompson - b. 1944, d. 2002 - writer
  

• Ann Donovan Timothy - d. 1793 - publisher of the Gazette of the State of South Carolina

• Elizabeth Ann Timothy - c. 1700-1757 - journalist
  

• Jean Hoefer Toal - b. 1943 - first woman to serve as South Carolina's cheif justice
  

• Henrie Monteith Tredwell - educator
  

• Irene Trowell-Harris - first female African-American general, National Guard
  

• Shirley Tyus - b. 1950 - pilot
  

• Angelica Singleton Van Buren - b. 1817, d. 1877 - daughter-in-law of President Martin Van Buren and served as his White House hostess
  –  Home House Plantation
  Plantation where Angelica Singleton Van Buren was raised
  

• Elizabeth Hawley Gasque Van Exem - b. 1886, d. 1989 - first US Congresswoman from South Carolina
  –  More about Elizabeth Hawley Gasque Van Exem
  –  Cedar Tree Plantation
  Plantation of Elizabeth Hawley Gasque Van Exem
  

• Elizabeth O'Neill Verner - b. 1883, d. 1979 - artist
  –  More about Elizabeth O'Neill Verner
  

• Dr. Clemmie E. Webber - educator
  

• Helena Wells - b. 1757, d. 1824 - author - works include Constantia Neville

• Marjory Wentworth - b. 1958 - poet, teacher, South Carolina Poet Laureate 2003-present
  –  More about Marjory Wentworth
  

• Celia Weston - actress
  

• Frances Rollin Whipper - b. 1847, d. 1901 - author - scroll down
  –  Used the pen name Frank A. Rollin and authored Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany.

• Dr. Ionia R. Whipper - doctor and social activist
  

• Honorable Lucille Simmons Whipper - activist
  

• Elizabeth White - b. 1893, d. 1976 - well known for her works of art including All God's Chillun' Got Wings!
  –  The Elizabeth White House - now Sumter Gallery of Art
  

• Vanna White - b. 1957 - entertainer
  –  More about Vanna White

• Effie Wilder - author of Out to Pasture
  

• Hannah English Williams - c. 1692-1722 - biologist
  

• Juanita Willmon-Goggins - first African-American woman elected to the SC general assembly
  

• Kate V. Wofford - educator

• Sylvia Woods - b. 1926 - entrepreneur
  

• Elizabeth Evelyn Wright - b. 1872, d. 1906 - founded Voorhees Normal and Industrial School

• Dr. Anne Austin Young - b. 1892, d. 1989 - physician
  

• Virginia Durant Young - c. b. 1842, d. 1906 - writer and worked for women's rights
  –  Portraits of Virginia Durant Young