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.
The first full time woman judge in Massachusetts and the first woman judge on the Massachusetts Superior Court
As one of Boston’s leading women philanthropists of the day
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.
A founder of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
1800s Boston philanthropist
Boston Chinatown activist
American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
Best known for her anti-slavery writings including Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs and A Letter to Mothers in Free States.
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