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.
The “unsinkable Molly Brown,” philanthropist, suffragist and Titanic survivor
In Loving v. Virginia, decided on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down Virginia’s law prohibiting interracial marriages as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
American arts patron
Executive director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
For thirty years Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve has written children’s books with the intention of dispelling stereotypes and negative images of Native Americans. She has brought the richness of Native American culture and heritage to thousands of children.
20th century American writer
Mycologist and beloved children’s author
In 1961, labor activist Esther Peterson, the head of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, urged President Kennedy to establish the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in order to develop recommendations for achieving gender equality.
The first femal U.S. Marshal