Rosa O’Doherty
1600s exiled Irish political activist
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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.
Maysoon Zayid
Palestinian-American comedian with cerebral palsy
Helen Morton
Helen Morton (1898-1991) was a long-time Boston activist, beginning with her service as a worker in the South End House in 1922 after she graduated from the Simmons College School of Social Work. In 1945, she helped with post war restoration in Europe.