Julia O Henson

Donated her townhouse to the Harriet Tubman Crusaders, an African-American branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Boston, as a residence for African-American women who were excluded from the city’s college dormitories and respectable rooming houses.

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Estella Crosby

Beautician and community activist who formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.

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Dr Frances Heywood

In the 1930s Frances started the research for which she is best known and which led to her PhD, on the characteristics of the tin-based alloys used in making typeface.

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