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Hall-of-Fame basketball player Robert Dandridge uses his talents and experience to mentor youth in basketball clinics and education programs.

Norfolk

The first orthopedic surgeon to fly into space, Robert L. Satcher's mission aboard the space shuttle Atlantis included spacewalks to repair robotic arms on the International Space Station.

Hampton

Early in the twentieth century, Robert Russa Moton was one of the foremost African American educators in the United States.

Hampton

Robert Walter Johnson was a driving force behind the integration of the sport of tennis.

Lynchburg

Social reformer Rosa Dixon Bowser was an advocate for civil rights and educational opportunities for African Americans.

Richmond

The first African American woman to become a certified public accountant in Virginia, Ruth Coles Harris was also the founding director of the Sydney Lewis School of Business at Virginia Union University.
Recipient of the VABPW Foundation Business…

Richmond

A native of Iraq, Sally Imran is currently a student at Blue Ridge Community College, working two full-time jobs.

Blue Ridge

Appointed a captain in the Confederate army, Sally Tompkins managed a hospital in Richmond during the Civil War.

Richmond

As a union president from the 1930s to the 1950s, Samuel H. Clark fought for the rights of African-American railroad workers.

Roanoke

For decades, civil rights attorney Samuel Tucker fought for African-American equality and school desegregation in the nation's highest courts.

Emporia