Julia Matilda Burns
US civil rights activist
US civil rights activist
American attorney, temperance agitator and minister
American singer and poet
American editor
American industrial reformer
American author
American reformer, pension agent and humanitarian
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.
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
The “Mother of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area,” Amy Meyer is a Bay Area conservationist who helped forge local and national support to preserve the land at the Golden Gate as a national park in the 1970s.