Education Archives - Page 27 of 147

Anne Buttimer

Irish geographer and Dominican sister

One of the most outspoken members of the Transvaal African Teachers’ Association, serving on the TATA executive and on the action committee that planned the teachers’ campaign for better wages and conditions in the early 1940s.

Mary Corinne Quintrell

Educator in Cleveland public schools who introduced the phonic method of teaching reading

Wilhelmina Freund

South African theater teacher, actor and producer

Wendy Heather Woods

South African activist

Biddy Partridge

South African photographer, musician and educator

Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela

South African poet, educator, and activist who was the first new South African Ambassador to France and UNESCO in 1995.

Emma Brown Malone

Emma Brown Malone founded a school to train women ministers in Cleveland

Bertha Mkhize

South African teacher, trade unionist, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who gained legal emancipation as a feme sole operating a business in her own right.