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.”
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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
Cecil Craig
Viscountess Craigavon and Irish unionist
Margaret Sunderland Cooper
American piritualist, animal rights activist and was Inspector of Cattle Transportation for the state of New Hampshire.
Stacey Park Milbern
Korean-American disability rights activist