Giovanni’s Room.Audre Lorde, poet, feminist, and activist.Alice Walker, social activist and novelist best known as author of The Color Purple.Angela Davis, political activist and scholar.Marsha P.
Johnson, transgender female, drag queen, and activist whose acts of protest catapulted the gay rights movement.Alvin Ailey, choreographer and founder of one the world’s most prominent dance companies,Lorraine Hansberry, the first Black female author to have a play performed on Broadway, most notable for writing A Raisin in the Sun and To Be Young, Gifted and Black.Zora Neale Hurston, novelist best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God and anthropologist whose research was focused on African-American and Caribbean folklore.Langston Hughes, poet.