Education Archives - Infinite Women

Dorothy C Stratton

Dorothy Stratton was the Director of the SPARS, the women’s reserve branch of the US Coast Guard during World War II.

Ida R Cummings

Ida R. Cummings and her family were on the front lines from the suffrage movement to supporting amendments to better the rights of Black Americans.

Lilli Hornig

As with so many of the scientists who worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, Lilli Schwenk Hornig (1921-2017) had fled her homeland to escape persecution.

Helen Timmons Henderson

Helen Timmons Henderson served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1924–1925), one of the first two women elected to that body (the other was Norfolk‘s Sarah Lee Fain).

Maureen Wall

Irish historian

Eliza Harriot O’Connor

Elizabeth “Eliza” Harriot Barons O’Connor was the first woman public lecturer in the United States, as well as a promoter of female education.

Esther Georgia Irving Cooper

Esther Georgia Irving Cooper was a civil rights leader in Arlington County, Virginia.

Lila Meade Valentine

Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms.

Katherine Wilson

Irish republican, civil servant, and teacher