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Leland Melvin
Leland D. Melvin inspires young people and encourages them to aspire to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Lynchburg
Amaza Meredith
Amaza Lee Meredith broke through racial and gender barriers in architecture and artistic design.
Lynchburg and Petersburg
Claudia Whitworth
Claudia Alexander Whitworth has worked diligently over the decades to improve the quality of life in Roanoke.
Roanoke
Oliver White Hill
Oliver White Hill served as counsel in the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954.
Richmond
John Cephas
John Cephas has become a world ambassador representing the Virginia Piedmont Blues tradition.
Caroline County
Edna Lewis
Edna Lewis created nationwide interest in southern cuisine and demonstrated that food could be more than just nourishment, but also a celebration of life.
Orange County
Evelyn Butts
Evelyn Thomas Butts led a successful challenge of Virginia’s poll tax all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
Norfolk
Pauline Adams
Taking a militant approach to the campaign for woman suffrage, Pauline Adams chose to go to prison for her political beliefs.
Norfolk
Virginia Estelle Randolph
Virginia Estelle Randolph's innovative teaching techniques became the model for African American education throughout the South early in the twentieth century.
Henrico County
Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and is Virginia's poet laureate.
Fredericksburg