Mary Soo Hoo
Boston Chinatown activist
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Edith Ban
Holocaust survivor, opened Cafe Budapest in Boston in 1959 and managed it until her death in 1988
Elizabeth Murray
1700s Scottish-American businesswoman and philanthropist
Toni Bullock
Pioneering funeral home owner, a WWII radio operator, and the youngest Black woman to earn an embalming license in Massachusetts.
Tommiejo Dixon
Tommiejo Dixon opened Ma Dixon’s in 1943, which is now a fixture of Boston’s food scene.
Missouri T B Hanna
The “Mother of Journalism” in Washington.
Ruby Foo
Ruby Foo moved to Boston in 1923 where she began a single-room restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown. Its popularity quickly grew, and she opened Ruby Foo’s “Den” in 1929—heralded as the first Chinese restaurant to successfully cater to non-Chinese clientele.
Abby Fisher
Formerly enslaved plantation cook who built a business as an upscale caterer and cookbook author
Christina McDonald Williams
American businesswoman and translator
Marya D Moses
Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County