Dr Evelyn Abdalah Menconi
Lebanese-American cultural ambassador in Boston
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Julia O’Connor
A successful and nonviolent strike of 8,000 women telephone operators in April 1919, led by Julia O’Connor, paralyzed telephone service in five New England states for six days.
Labeebee Hanna Saquet
Served as a bridge between Arab Americans and the general public, beginning in 1930 when she directed Arabian Nights, a Boston Syrian Tercentenary celebration presented at Symphony Hall.
Harriet Hemenway
Harriet Lawrence Hemenway (1858-1960) in 1896 founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society with her cousin, Minna Hall (1851-1941).
Mary Morton Kehew
Mary Morton Kehew led the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union from 1892 until her death in 1919.
Mary Kenney O’Sullivan
Suffragist and one of the principal founders of the National Women’s Trade Union League in 1903.
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Mary Mildred Williams
American abolitionist
Mary Evans Wilson
NAACP organizer and founder of the Women’s Service Club
Maud Cuney Hare
Concert pianist, composer, teacher, lecturer, and author; director and founder of the Allied Arts Center and author of Negro Musicians and Their Music, a comprehensive survey of African-American music, as well as an arts critic and specialist in Creole music.