Irene Hickox Scranton
1800s American educator, churchwoman, and benefactor
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Isa-Beall Williams Neel
President of the Georgia (U.S.) Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union from 1911 to 1932 and then taught language at Bessie Tift College in Forsyth from 1932 to 1941. She was the first woman to receive the honorary LL.D. degree from Mercer University in Macon (1931) and the first woman to be elected vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention (1931).
Jean Roberta Hudson
American educator and expert on Cleveland, Ohio history
Pearl Anderson Wanamaker
Pearl Wanamaker was a long-serving Superintendent of Public Instruction (1941-1957), who addressed World War II educational and vocational demands, and managed the build-up and rural consolidation of the public school system for a swelling World War ll baby boom.
Joan Arbeiter
American feminist artist
Jane M Picker
Jane M. Picker co-founded the Women’s Law Fund to support litigation for Cleveland residents seeking legal redress in cases of sexual discrimination in employment, education, housing, and government benefits.
Lizabeth Moody
Lizabeth Moody co-founded the Women’s Law Fund to support litigation for Cleveland residents seeking legal redress in cases of sexual discrimination in employment, education, housing, and government benefits.
Agnes Deans Cameron
1800s Canadian educator, writer, lecturer, and adventurer
Florence Davy Thompson
1800s Canadian biologist and librarian
Emily Carr
Canadian painter, art teacher, and author