Jennie Collins
In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.
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Iris Calderhead
American suffragist
Minerva Kline Brooks
Ohio suffragist who also helped organize the precursor of the Cleveland Play House (1915), and introduced interpretive dance in both Cleveland and New York City.
Judith Winsor Smith
Spending seven decades at the center of the Boston suffrage movement, Judith Winsor Smith proudly claimed, “I believed in suffrage before there was such a word in the dictionary.”
Jane Horn
She organized 1,000 church and labor union members on a trip to Washington, D.C., to march in support of the Civil Rights Act.
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
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.
Ethel Lennox
Ethel Lennox drove the creation of Upham’s Corner Neighborhood Health Center and was a community health advocate across Boston.
Jessie Daniel Ames
Suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped build the anti-lynching movement in the American South