Co-founded Freedom House, Inc., a Boston nonprofit community-based organization dedicated to human rights and advocacy for African-Americans in Boston. Her leadership moved Freedom House into areas of urban renewal, minority employment, and educational equality for children as well as being a positive force for interracial cooperation
She joined the Nation of Islam in the mid-1950s where she helped to establish a mosque with a daycare center attached to it. In the early 1940s, she became the guardian of her half-brother Malcolm Little, who later changed his name to Malcolm X
Boston’s first Black woman TV reporter, who led Civil Rights voter efforts, told neighborhood stories, and earned numerous accolades.
Indefatigable union activist and organizer.
Sue Bailey Thurman (1903-1996) founded the Museum of African American History in 1963
Lillian Walker was an African American civil rights activist in Washington state.
Activist, Washington state senator, and organizer of support committee for Gordon Hirabayashi during World War II.
Roberta Byrd Barr was an African American educator, civil rights leader, actor, librarian, and television personality.
A settlement worker and the NAACP’s first secretary from February 1910 to March 1911
Chizu Kitano Iiyama (1921-2020) was an activist, social worker and educator who participated in social movements such as the Japanese American Redress Movement, integration in Chicago and the treatment of Arab Americans after 9/11.