Vesta Smith
South African anti-apartheid activist
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Bertha Solomon
South African lawyer, politician and women’s rights activist
Betty Radford
South African editor of the The Guardian in the 1940s
Vivienne Ncakeni
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.
Madame Naokichi Matsunaga
Wife of the imperial Japanese consul in Seattle in the 1910s
Mary Corinne Quintrell
Educator in Cleveland public schools who introduced the phonic method of teaching reading
Barbara Hogan
South African Minister of Health and of Public Enterprises
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.
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
South African poet, educator, and activist who was the first new South African Ambassador to France and UNESCO in 1995.
Vera Ponnen
English-South African communist activist