Janie Porter Barrett
From her home in Hampton, Barrett founded the Locust Street Settlement House, serving her local Black community with classes, childcare, entertainments, and lectures.
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Dr Sara Josephine Baker
Dr. S. Josephine Baker became the first director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the country, in 1908. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Rosa Dixon Bowser
A noted educator and nationally known club woman, Bowser developed night classes and led summer teaching institutes throughout the state of Virginia for African American educators. She would later become a founder and president of the Virginia State Teachers Association.
Dr Joyce Vickery
Joyce Vickery was a forensic botanist who was most noted for her work on the kidnap and murder case of Graham Thorne in 1960.
Dr Helen Brooke Taussig
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
Amy Meyer
The “Mother of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area,” Amy Meyer is a Bay Area conservationist who helped forge local and national support to preserve the land at the Golden Gate as a national park in the 1970s.
Anna Clemenc
Born in Calumet, Michigan to Slovenian immigrant parents in 1888, Anna Klobuchar Clemenc Shaw was instrumental in the fight for worker’s rights during the 1913-14 Copper Miners’ Strike in Michigan’s Copper Country.
Jamila Jones
Jamila Jones sang professionally as a teenager with the Montgomery Gospel Trio and the Harambee Singers. In 1958, she came to the Highlander Folk School for nonviolent activist training.
Dorie Ladner
Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner grew up in Mississippi and became civil rights activists as teenagers in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Joyce Ladner
Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner grew up in Mississippi and became civil rights activists as teenagers in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).