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Shirley Graham Du Bois

African-American writer, composer, educator, and civil rights activist

Blanche Armwood

African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist

Marian Frost

Librarian who convinced Andrew Carnegie to pay for a library in Worthing (UK)

Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’

Helene Lange

Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.