Virginia Changemakers
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  • Collection: Emergence of Modern America

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Sarah Garland Boyd Jones was the first African American woman to pass the Virginia Medical Examining Board's examination.
Richmond

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Sarah Lee Fain was one of the first two women elected to Virginia's General Assembly.
Norfolk

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Sophie G. Meredith was an advocate for equal suffrage and women's rights.
Richmond

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Virginia Estelle Randolph's innovative teaching techniques became the model for African American education throughout the South early in the twentieth century.
Henrico County

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Pulitzer Prize–winning author Willa Cather was acclaimed for her novels portraying the settlers and frontier life of the American Plains.
Frederick County
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