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Geraldine Pindell Trotter

Associate editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights.

Harriet C Hall

As president of the Women’s Service Club, she spearheaded the WSC’s drive to allow African Americans to live in dormitories of local educational institutions.

Donated her townhouse to the Harriet Tubman Crusaders, an African-American branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Boston, as a residence for African-American women who were excluded from the city’s college dormitories and respectable rooming houses.

Clara Luper

History teacher Clara Luper (1923–2011) and the NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma City that she advised initiated some of the first sit-ins in the civil rights movement, beginning in 1958.

Sarah Roberts

Benjamin Roberts, an African American, sued the city of Boston in 1848 stating that his daughter Sarah Roberts was unlawfully refused entrance to five schools between her home and the Smith School.

Maude Trotter Steward

Assistant editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights

Ruth Batson

A former director of the Museum of African American History, Ruth Batson (1921-2003) was chairperson of the education committee of Boston NAACP that led the fight in the early 1960s against segregation in the Boston Public Schools.

Virginia Isaacs

Virginia Isaacs Trotter (1842-1919) managed her family’s real estate in Hyde Park and supported her son Monroe, who established the Boston Guardian. She was a leading voice in early civil rights.

Ellen Jackson

Ellen Swepson Jackson (1935-2005) was the founding director of the Freedom House Institute of Schools and Education and the visionary behind Operation Exodus, a program that bussed inner-city students to less crowded schools.