Isabel Barrows
American editor and penologist
American editor and penologist
Founder of the Catholic Worker, activist and social reformer
English novelist and biographer
American philanthropist and social reformer.
American philanthropist and writer
English author
American speaker and writer
American philanthropist
American reformer who secured for Indiana a tenement-house law
Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. However, she was also critical in preserving the histories of formerly enslaved African Americans in the early twentieth century, fighting against preventable ailments in Black communities across the country, and for authoring a children’s book.