Hazel Mountain Walker
The first black woman principal in the Cleveland public school system, an educator, an actress, and an advocate for racial integration.
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Vitya Vronsky Babin
Distinguished pianist and teacher long associated with the Cleveland Institute of Music
Helen Maria Chesnutt
Latin instructor and co-author of a Latin textbook
Mary Brown Martin
The first African-American woman elected to the Cleveland Board of Education
Myrtle Johnson Bell
Ohio teacher, administrator and community activist, and the first African-American assistant high school principal in the Cleveland Public Schools
Florence Bundy Fairfax
A long-time employee of Cleveland’s Recreation Department who worked “to help children to form good social patterns of behavior through recreation.”
Beatrice Wright Fox
Educator, the first African-American administrator in the Mount Pleasant area, and an advisor/director with the Phillis Wheatley Association
Eileen Jackson Southern
Today, both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music recognize African American music as worthy of scholarly study – thanks in large part to her work.
Dr Eva Jellett
Irish doctor
Mary Hata Sadataki
A teacher at a Japanese-American WWII relocation camp, a founding member in 1965 of the Cleveland Japanese-American Foundation, and helped develop the Cleveland Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.