Activism Archives - Page 24 of 203

Suzanne Revaleon Green

Boston women teacher who successfully challenged the 1880s School Committee regulation that women resign upon marriage

Virginia Isaacs

Virginia Isaacs Trotter (1842-1919) managed her family’s real estate in Hyde Park and supported her son Monroe, who established the Boston Guardian. She was a leading voice in early civil rights.

Wilhelmina Crosson

Apioneering African American educator who became the second president of Palmer Memorial Institute

Amanda Melvina Lougee

Suffragist and inventor who took over management of Clifton Manufacturing Company when her brother died

Amanda Houston

Amanda Houston (1926–1995), a Roxbury activist, founded programs for social change, directed ABCD’s New Careers Program, and taught in Black Studies programs.

Armeda Gibbs

Gibbs was an abolitionist who helped escaped slaves. During the Civil War, she became the first female nurse for the Union.

Ellen Swepson Jackson (1935-2005) was the founding director of the Freedom House Institute of Schools and Education and the visionary behind Operation Exodus, a program that bussed inner-city students to less crowded schools.

Adelaide Anderson

Although not an engineer by training and not the very first of the Lady Factory Inspectors, Dame Adelaide Anderson became one of the best known and had close connections with the Women’s Engineering Society at its outset in the final years of her own career.