Ruth Batson
A former director of the Museum of African American History, Ruth Batson (1921-2003) was chairperson of the education committee of Boston NAACP that led the fight in the early 1960s against segregation in the Boston Public Schools.
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Suzanne Revaleon Green
Boston women teacher who successfully challenged the 1880s School Committee regulation that women resign upon marriage
Wilhelmina Crosson
Apioneering African American educator who became the second president of Palmer Memorial Institute
Betsey Draper
Betsey Draper (1784-1871) is considered West Roxbury’s first librarian, housing the town’s book collection in her store.
Ella F Boyd
A teacher, an amateur geologist, an officer in the Boston Society of Natural History and the Agassiz Association, and a member of the Hyde Park school board for fifteen years.
Ellen Jackson
Ellen Swepson Jackson (1935-2005) was the founding director of the Freedom House Institute of Schools and Education and the visionary behind Operation Exodus, a program that bussed inner-city students to less crowded schools.
Alice Bradley
Alice Bradley (1875-1946) was a pioneering cook and educator. She tested recipes for Fannie Farmer, taught at Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, and eventually led the school.
Amanda Houston
Amanda Houston (1926–1995), a Roxbury activist, founded programs for social change, directed ABCD’s New Careers Program, and taught in Black Studies programs.
Anna Bobbitt Gardner
In 1932, Anna Bobbitt Gardner (1901-97) became the first African American women to be awarded a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.