Fannie Barrier Williams
Civil rights activist who helped found the National League of Colored Women in 1893
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Adeline Davis
Canadian temperance reformer and author
Maria Grant
Canadian social reformer, suffragist, school trustee, secretary, probation officer, and Unity movement preacher
Ada Kepley
American attorney, temperance agitator and minister
Abby Morton Diaz
American industrial reformer
Ada Celeste Sweet
American reformer, pension agent and humanitarian
Dr Sara Josephine Baker
Dr. S. Josephine Baker became the first director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the country, in 1908. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Janie Porter Barrett
From her home in Hampton, Barrett founded the Locust Street Settlement House, serving her local Black community with classes, childcare, entertainments, and lectures.
Rosa Dixon Bowser
A noted educator and nationally known club woman, Bowser developed night classes and led summer teaching institutes throughout the state of Virginia for African American educators. She would later become a founder and president of the Virginia State Teachers Association.
Hazel Wolf
Hazel Wolf was well known as an environmentalist and social activist.