Caroline Callender
Caroline Callender was one of the founders of Fields Corner Industrial School and was president of the board for over twenty-five years, handling funding, staffing and the planning of programs.
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Helena Dudley
Director of Denison House, a woman-run settlement house that occupied three buildings In Boston for fifty years
Kip Tiernan
Indefatigable activist for social and economic justice
Edith Joyce Morgan
As Collingwood’s (Melbourne) first social worker in 1972, she led the development of community services provided on the basis of rights not charity.
Dolores Jiménez y Muro
Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.
Cordelia Harmon
Cordelia Harmon (1822-1883) co-founded The Boston Home in 1881 to aid those with physical illness and poverty. Her legacy continues today in the care of adults with neurological disorders.
Clementina Poto Langone
She helped many Italian immigrants in Boston become citizens so they could be eligible for social security benefits and provided food and clothing to Italian people out of work
Susan Fessenden
Susan Fessenden (1840-1932) was a reformer and president of the Massachusetts WCTU, advocating for temperance, women’s suffrage, and assistance to the poor.
Dr Melnea Agnes Jones Cass
As a suffragist, clubwoman, and activist, Cass advocated for Boston’s most disadvantaged inhabitants.
Flo Ware
Florasina Ware was the quintessential activist, known in Seattle for raising a strong and logical voice on behalf of children, the elderly, and the poor.