Grace Lorch
President of the Boston Teachers Union and the first teacher to appeal the rule that teachers must resign if they got married.
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Elizabeth Power
Elizabeth Power founded the Free Home for Consumptives (FHC), which provided care to people with tuberculosis regardless of means, nationality, race, or religion.
Mary Colbert
Mary Colbert (1890-1982) was a political activist for more than four decades and worked on JFK’s campaign.
Maude Trotter Steward
Assistant editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights
Mehitable Sunderland
Mehitable Sunderland (1807-1901) is recognized as the first physician in Boston’s Hyde Park.
Minna Hall
In 1896, co-founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Nancy Gardner Prince
In 1853, Prince published A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince Written by Herself
Pauline Durant
Co-founder of Wellesley College
Rose Standish Nichols
Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1964) was among the first well-known women landscape architects and a lifelong pacifist
Susan Fessenden
Susan Fessenden (1840-1932) was a reformer and president of the Massachusetts WCTU, advocating for temperance, women’s suffrage, and assistance to the poor.