Mary Corinne Quintrell
Educator in Cleveland public schools who introduced the phonic method of teaching reading
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Bertha Solomon
South African lawyer, politician and women’s rights activist
Bettie du Toit
South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist
Betty Radford
South African editor of the The Guardian in the 1940s
Wendy Heather Woods
South African activist
Biddy Partridge
South African photographer, musician and educator
Vivienne Ncakeni
One of the most outspoken members of the Transvaal African Teachers’ Association, serving on the TATA executive and on the action committee that planned the teachers’ campaign for better wages and conditions in the early 1940s.
Babette Brown
A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and all over the world
Barbara Hogan
South African Minister of Health and of Public Enterprises
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
South African poet, educator, and activist who was the first new South African Ambassador to France and UNESCO in 1995.