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Remember the Ladies
Wednesdays at 10:04, Summer 2026
Hosted by Lara Dua-Swartz

In honor of our nation's 250th birthday and inspired by Abigail Adams's call in 1776, we "Remember the Ladies" - celebrating Georgia women in history.

Conceived and written by: Margaret Holt, Suzanne Minarcine, Madeline Van Dyck and Marilyn Vickers. Edited and produced by Lara Dua-Swartz.

  • A black-and-white historical portrait of an African-American woman seated with a quilt square on her lap
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    Harriet Powers
    Harriet Powers was an American folk artist and quilter. Born a slave near Athens, GA, in 1837, she learned her quilt-making skills on the plantation where she was raised.
  • Description: Louise McBee Portrait of Louise McBee standing on steps inside the Georgia State Capital Building Rotunda.
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    Louise McBee
    Born in 1924, Dr. Louise McBee started her career as a high school teacher. She came to the University of Georgia in 1963 as the Dean of Women and retired in 1988 as acting Vice President for Academic Affairs.
  • A woman with short gray hair smiles while speaking behind a clear podium on a stage with purple lighting.
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    Monica Kaufman Pearson
    Monica Kaufman Pearson started her career when she was still in high school, reading prayers, and doing voiceovers for a local radio station.
  • black and white portrait of a lady with glasses.
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    Phyllis Jenkins Barrow
    Born in Athens in 1920, She graduated at the top of her high school class at age 15 and earned her Bachelor’s degree from UGA by the time she was 19.
  • A black-and-white photo shows a woman standing beside a small propeller airplane.
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    Hazel Jane Raines
    Despite having a heart condition and chronic asthma, she chased her dreams of flying. While still in college, she became the first woman in Georgia to receive a pilot's license.
  • Dr. Lois Taylor Ellison - a photo of a friendly, smiling woman with short grey hair and glasses wearing a red blazer over a white blouse and a string of pearls.
    Dr. Lois Taylor Ellison
    Dr. Lois Taylor Ellison was a pioneer in medicine and science. Born in Fort Valley, GA, she was inspired as a child to pursue medicine by her grandfather, a pharmacist.
  • This is the official White House portrait of Mrs. Rosalynn Carter, wife of President Jimmy Carter, July, 1978. (AP Photo/The White House)
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    Rosalynn Carter
    Rosalynn Carter was the First Lady of the United States during the tenure of her husband, Jimmy Carter. High School sweethearts from Plains, GA, they were always equal partners.
  • Student Charlayne Hunter, 18, the first Black girl to attend the University of Georgia, smiles as she is interviewed in Athens, Georgia, on Jan. 11, 1961 following her first class in Meigs Hall. The previously White university was ordered to integrated by federal courts. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)
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    Charlayne Hunter-Gault
    Charlayne Hunter-Gault is one of the first two African-Americans to integrate the University of Georgia in 1961.Although an ideal candidate for admission to UGA, she was initially rejected several times.
  • A black-and-white engraved portrait of Ellen Craft wearing a bonnet.
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    Ellen Craft
    Born near Macon, GA in 1826, Ellen Craft was a slave who famously fled from slavery in 1848. Ellen was very light-skinned, and used this trait to disguise herself as a young, ill white man while her husband William posed as her slave.
  • A black-and-white full-length portrait shows a woman standing in a dark dress and jacket with a head covering draped over her shoulders.
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    Susie King Taylor
    Susie King Taylor was born into slavery in Georgia in 1848. With the help of her grandmother, she was able to access an underground education in a time when teaching African Americans to read and write was illegal.