Before Brown vs Board of Education (1954), there was Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District (1946). Learn more about Sylvia Mendez and this historic case leading to integration of LA-area schools www.uscourts.gov/about-federa... www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRD...

Say her name: NASA Astronomer Rosie Ferreira

Harlem-born soprano, Martina Arroyo www.nycopera.com/leadership/b...

El Maestro, Rafael Cordero y Molina aleteia.org/2019/09/07/t...

Trailblazer, performer, Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz nmaahc.si.edu/latinx/celia...

Scholar, activist, patriot. Pedro Albizu Campos boricua.com/pedro-albizu...

Activist, actor, dancer, choreogrpher: Sylvia del Villard www.womensactivism.nyc/stories/8097

Pura Belpré Afro-Puerto Rican librarian who brought Spanish to the NYPL to serve the growing Latine/Puerto Rican disapora. www.npr.org/2016/09/08/4...

Puerto Rican historian, writer, curator, activist, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg nmaahc.si.edu/latinx/artur...

Came across this gem last night. Take some time to watch it www.psburnthisletterplease.com

Mother of the modern day trans rights movement, Sylvia Rivera. www.homosensual.com/cultura/hist...

Madame E. Toussaint Welcome - Renound silent era filmmaker www.harlemworldmagazine.com/legendary-ha...

Tressie Souders - Pioneering early cinema film director tellersuntold.com/tressie-soud...

LEGEND

Mary Ellen Bute - film animator, producer, director. www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Bute.htm

Fatima Begum - Early cinema film director, actor, screenwriter. homegrown.co.in/homegrown-vo...

Margaret Booth - Silent era and early Hollywood film editor womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu/booth-margar...

Alma Reville - Screenwriter, editor. www.brentonfilm.com/alma-reville...

Ruth Anne Baldwin - director, editor, screenwriter. wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

Dorothy Davenport - actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Margery Wilson - Silent era director, actor, producer, acting coach, screenwriter and so much more! wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

Frances Marion - United Artists screenwriter time.com/4186886/fran...

Anita Loos - Hollywood screenwriter and novelist. www.theguardian.com/film/2016/ja...

June Mathis - Early Hollywood film producer, screenwriter, casting director, and film editor www.altfg.com/june-mathis/

Mary Manning - filmmaker, film critic, co-founder of the Dublin Film Society wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/mary...

Germain Dulac - French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/feature...

Marion Wong - American company director, costume designer, director, actress, producer, music performer and screenwriter thestory.bar/blog/2018/9/...

Maria P Williams - Film director and producer filmschoolrejects.com/flames-of-wr...

Esther Eng - film director outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

Mabel Normand - Early Hollywood film director and actor www.theguardian.com/film/2018/se...

Helena Smith Dayton - director, animator, sculptor, painter. blog.animationstudies.org?p=2641

Marguerite Bertsch - film director and screenwriter. wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

Cleo Madison - theatrical and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Lotte Reiniger - Director of one of the first animated films. Inventor of the multi-plane camera used by Disney in animated films theconversation.com/before-walt-...

Dorothy Arzner - Hollywood studio film director with more than 20 feature film credits www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/...

Lois Webber - Silent film director and actor. www.npr.org/2019/01/05/6...

Dorothy Arzner - One of the most prolific Hollywood film directors of her age. wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

Virginia Van Upp - Producer and screenwriter during Hollywood's Golden Age. hazlitt.net/feature/what...

Ida Lupino - Director, producer, writer, actor. Forged a path for independent film productions as director/produced. Contributed to many episodes in the early years of television. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/ida-lu...

Mary Pickford - Studio founder and head (United Artists), producer actor. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Maya Deren - pioneer for independent experimental filmmaking www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Lee Miller - model, muse for Dada artist Man Ray. Accomplished war correspondent and portrait photographer www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFMd...

Alice Guy Blaché: The creator of narrative film, taught Georges Méliès everything he knew. benaturalthemovie.com