Georgia Women of Achievement
The Georgia Women of Achievement (GWA) recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Georgia for their significant achievements or statewide contributions. The concept was first proposed by Rosalynn Carter in 1988. The first induction was in 1992 at Wesleyan College, and has continued annually. The induction ceremonies are held each year during March, designated as Women's History Month. The organization consists of a Board of Trustees and a Board of Selections.[1] Nominees must have been dead no less than ten years. Georgians, or those associated with Georgia, are selected based on the individual's impact on society. Nominations are proposed through documentation and an online nomination form, and must be submitted prior to October of any given year. GWA has traveling exhibits and speakers available upon request.[2]
Inductees
Name | Image | Birth–Death | Year | Area of achievement | Ref(s) |
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Eliza Frances (Fanny) Andrews | 100px | (1840–1931) | 2006 | Botanist | [3] |
Madeleine Kiker Anthony | (1903–1989) | 2003 | Historic preservationist who helped save the old courthouse on Dahlonega, Georgia, now the Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site | [4] | |
Susan Cobb Milton Atkinson | (1860–1942) | 1996 | First Lady of Georgia, wife of Governor William Yates Atkinson; proponent of a state-supported college for women | [5] | |
Sarah Randolph Bailey | (1885–1972) | 2012 | Educator who organized the YWCA-sponsored Girl Reserves for African-American girls | [6] | |
Dicksie Bradley Bandy | (1890–1971) | 1993 | Philanthropist, businesswoman, campaigned to restore the historic Cherokee Chief Vann House Historic Site | [7] | |
Elfrida De Renne Barrow | (1884–1970) | 2008 | Author, poet | [8] | |
Mathilda Beasley | (1832–1903) | 2004 | Former slave, Georgia's first African-American Catholic nun | [9] | |
Martha McChesney Berry | 100px | (1866–1942) | 1992 | Founder of Berry College | [10] |
Nellie Peters Black | (1851–1919) | 1996 | Women's issues organizer and activist | [11] | |
Mary Musgrove Bosomworth | (1700–1765) | 1993 | Creek Indian woman who served as an interpreter for James Oglethorpe | [12] | |
Selena Sloan Butler | (1872–1964) | 1995 | Founder of first African-American PTA | [13] | |
Margaret O. Bynum | (1921–1982) | 2007 | Educator | [14] | |
Lillian Gordy Carter | 100px | (1898–1983) | 2011 | Mother of President Jimmy Carter; Peace Corps worker; nurse; businesswoman | [15] |
Helena Maud Brown Cobb | (1869–1922) | 2003 | Missionary, educator | [16] | |
Julia L. Coleman | (1889–1973) | 2001 | Educator | [17] | |
Mary Francis Hill Coley | (1900–1966) | 2011 | Midwife, subject of All My Babies | [18] | |
Wessie Gertrude Connell | (1915–1987) | 2002 | Librarian | [19] | |
Ellen Smith Craft | (1826–1891) | 1996 | Escaped slave, educator | [20] | |
Sallie Ellis Davis | (1877–1950) | 2000 | Educator | [21] | |
Julia Lester Dillon | (1871–1959) | 2003 | Landscape architect | [22] | |
Henrietta Stanley Dull | (1863–1964) | 2013 | Caterer, journalist, author (as S. R. Dull) of Southern Cooking | [23] | |
Cassandra Pickett Durham | (1824–1885) | 1993 | First woman in Georgia to earn a doctor of medicine degree | [24] | |
Lettie Pate Evans | (1872–1953) | 1998 | Philanthropist, on board of directors of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. | [25] | |
Rebecca Latimer Felton | (1835–1930) | 1997 | First woman to serve in the United States Senate; women's rights advocate | [26] | |
Julia Flisch | (1861–1941) | 1994 | Journalist, women's rights advocate, educator | [27] | |
Edith Lenora Foster | (1906–1996) | 2007 | Librarian, writer, historian | [28] | |
Mary Ann Harris Gay | (1829–1918) | 1997 | Author | [29] | |
Amilee Chastain Graves | (1910–1983) | 2008 | Publisher; first woman to hold elected office in Habersham County | [30] | |
Grace Towns Hamilton | (1907–1992) | 2006 | First African-American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly | [31] | |
Ethel Harpst | (1883–1967) | 2012 | Founder of the Ethel Harpst Home for children | [32] | |
Corra Mae White Harris | (1869–1935) | 1996 | Author | [33] | |
Julia Collier Harris | (1885–1967) | 1998 | Journalist, civic leader, editor | [34] | |
Allie Carroll Hart | (1913–2003) | 2015 | Worked to preserve government records and photographs; established the Georgia Archives Institute for professional development; helped create the Southeast Archives and Records Conference; Faithful Service Award 1971 from Gov. Jimmy Carter, Outstanding Achievement Award from the Georgia Trust in 1997 and 2000, Brenau University Alumni Hall of Fame 2002 | [35] | |
Nancy Morgan Hart | (1735–1830) | 1997 | Namesake of Hart County; frontier woman, American patriot, spy for the colonial army during the American War of Independence | [36] | |
Laura Askew Haygood | (1845–1900) | 2000 | Educator, missionary | [37] | |
Louise Frederick Hays | (1881–1951) | 2004 | Historian, director Georgia Department of Archives and History | [38] | |
Sarah Porter Hillhouse | (1763–1831) | 2006 | First woman editor and printer in Georgia | [39] | |
Lugenia Burns Hope | (1871–1947) | 1996 | Social reformer | [40] | |
May duBignon Stiles Howard | (1894–1983) | 2011 | Health care | [41] | |
Anna Colquitt Hunter | (1892–1985) | 1995 | Historic preservationist | [42] | |
Mary Gregory Jewett | (1908–1976) | 2013 | Founder and first President of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation | [43] | |
Rhoda Kaufman | (1888–1956) | 1998 | Social activist | [44] | |
Lucy Craft Laney | (1854–1933) | 1992 | Educator, hospital administrator | [45] | |
Mary Ann Lipscomb | (1848–1918) | 2010 | Educator | [46] | |
Carrie Steele Logan | (1829–1900) | 1998 | Founded Carrie Steele Orphans' Home | [47] | |
Helen Dortch Longstreet | 100px | (1863–1962) | 2004 | Social activist | [48] |
Juliette Gordon Low | (1860–1927) | 1992 | Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA | [49] | |
Helen Douglas Mankin | 100px | (1894–1956) | 2007 | First woman elected to the United States Congress from Georgia | [50] |
Sara Branham Matthews | (1888–1962) | 2007 | Scientist who discovered a treatment for spinal meningitis | [51] | |
Carson McCullers | (1917–1967) | 1994 | Author | [52] | |
Lula Dobbs McEachern | (1874–1949) | 2002 | Educator, missionary, philanthropist | [53] | |
Lucy Barrow McIntire | (1886–1975) | 1997 | Civic activist | [54] | |
Alice Woodby McKane | (1865–1948) | 2005 | First female doctor in Savannah | [55] | |
Moina Belle Michael | (1869–1944) | 1999 | Originated the idea of using poppies to remember the war dead; honored with a United States postage stamp in 1948 | [56] | |
Caroline Pafford Miller | (1903–1992) | 2009 | Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for her first novel, Lamb in His Bosom, the first Georgian to win the Pulitzer for Fiction. | [57] | |
Margaret Mitchell | (1900–1949) | 1994 | Author of Gone with the Wind | [58] | |
Ruth Hartley Mosley | (1886–1975) | 1994 | Philanthropist | [59] | |
Sarah McLendon Murphy | (1892–1954) | 2004 | Children's activist | [60] | |
Susan Dowdell Myrick | (1893–1978) | 2008 | Journalist, technical advisor for Gone with the Wind movie | [61] | |
Viola Ross Napier | (1881–1962) | 1993 | Member Georgia House of Representatives | [62] | |
Beulah Rucker Oliver | (1888–1963) | 2012 | Educator | [63] | |
Flannery O'Connor | 100px | (1925–1964) | 1992 | Author | [64] |
Nina Anderson Pape | (1869–1944) | 2005 | Educator | [65] | |
Frances Freeborn Pauley | (1905–2003) | 2015 | League of Women Voters; President of the DeKalb League; Georgia League President; Executive Director of the Georgia Council on Human Relations; activist with the Office of Civil Rights who worked to implement the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | [66] | |
Harriet Powers | (1837–1910) | 2009 | Quilt maker, creator of the Bible Quilt now in the possession of the National Museum of American History | [67] | |
Hazel Raines | (1916–1956) | 1995 | First woman in Georgia to earn a pilot's license (private license, and commercial license with Eastern Air Lines), stunt pilot, Lieutenant of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, flew with the (British) Air Transport Auxiliary, trained Brazilian air students, recalled into active duty to fly in the Korean War, inducted into Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame | [68] | |
Gertrude Pridgett "Ma" Rainey | (1886–1939) | 1993 | Blues singer | [69] | |
Jeannette Pickering Rankin | (1880–1973) | 2005 | First woman elected to the United States House of Representatives | [70] | |
Celestine Sibley | (1914–1999) | 2010 | Journalist | [71] | |
Lillian Eugenia Smith | 100px | (1897–1966) | 1999 | Author of Strange Fruit, a 1944 novel about interracial love | [72] |
Alice Harrell Strickland | (1859–1947) | 2002 | Georgia's first woman mayor | [73] | |
Rebecca Stiles Taylor | (1879–1958) | 2014 | First president of the Savannah chapter of the National Association of Colored Women | [74] | |
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas | (1834–1907) | 2014 | Memoirist | [75] | |
Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman | (1794–1885) | 1994 | Founder of the first public high school for girls in Augusta | [76] | |
Bazoline Estelle Usher | (1885–1992) | 2014 | Atlanta’s first Supervisor of Negro Schools | [77] | |
Catherine Evans Whitener | (1880–1964) | 2001 | Revived the textile art of tufting into a profitable business | [78] | |
Leila Ross Wilburn | (1885–1967) | 2003 | Georgia's first registered female architect | [79] | |
Madrid Williams | (1911–1993) | 2010 | First female president of the National Association of Bar Executives | [80] | |
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson | (1860–1914) | 2000 | First Lady of the United States, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson | [81] | |
Nell Kendall Hodgson Woodruff | (1892–1968) | 2015 | American Red Cross; volunteer; first female member of the Emory Hospital Administration Committee; Eisenhower appointee to attend the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland; created the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing | [82] | |
Emily Barnelia Woodward | (1885–1970) | 2004 | Journalist | [83] | |
Lollie Belle Moore Wylie | (1858–1923) | 2013 | Writer | [84] | |
Jane Hurt Yarn | (1924–1995) | 2009 | Environmentalist, conservationist | [85] |
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