Mildred Davenport
Trailblazing dancer and renowned dance instructor.
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Pauline Agassiz Shaw
In 1881, when Pauline Agassiz Shaw founded the North Bennet Street School to train primarily European Jewish and Italian immigrants in skilled trades, Boston’s North End was home to thousands of recent immigrants who crowded into the neighborhood’s tenement houses in search of a better life.
Lucretia Crocker
As the first woman supervisor of the Boston Public Schools, Lucretia Crocker pioneered the discovery method of teaching mathematics and the natural sciences during her decade-long tenure, which began with her appointment in 1876.
Mary Tileston Hemenway
1800s Boston philanthropist
Elma Lewis
Founded the National Center for Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) in 1968 eighteen years after opening the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (ELSFA) in Boston
Dr Abigail Adams Eliot
American educator and a leading authority on early childhood education.
Anne Sullivan
Blind teacher of Helen Keller
E Virginia Williams
The founder of the Boston Ballet in 1963
Sue Bailey Thurman
Sue Bailey Thurman (1903-1996) founded the Museum of African American History in 1963
Susan Paul
In the 1830s, Susan Paul (1809-41) taught at the Smith School on Joy Street, a segregated school for African American children funded jointly by the city and private donations. Paul was also an officer in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.