Caroline Douglas
1800s marchioness of Queensberry and Irish nationalist benefactor
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Rosaleen Mills
1900s Irish activist and educator
Rosa O’Doherty
1600s exiled Irish political activist
Mary Jane O’Donovan Rossa
Irish poet
Aiko Yamashiro
Executive director of the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities
Ama Codjoe
American poet, dancer and activist
Rosaline Kelly
Irish union official and media professional
Pauline Bromberg
Bromberg was a prominent community leader and a Boston teacher who headed the BPS Department of Physical Education for thirty-six years.
Alice Hennessey
Boston resident Alice Hennessey (1933-2017) was a dedicated champion of Millenium Park, which opened on the site of an old landfill in 2000.
Abbie Ballou Heywood
Abbie Ballou Heywood (1830–1918), a reformist educator from Hopedale (Boston), promoted progressive teaching, peace, and wrote about utopian life in Hopedale Reminiscences.