Barbara Rose Johns Powell conceived and executed a 1951 student walkout at the all-Black Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, precipitating one of five legal cases that would be consolidated into the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned segregated public schools.
Aline E. Black was a teacher known primarily as a principal in a civil rights court case on equal pay.
She became the first Empress of Haiti after her marriage to General Jean-Jacques Dessalines who crowned himself emperor of Haiti on October 8, 1804.
Modern dancer and choreographer
African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II
Emilie Bethmann (1844-1928) and her daughter Freida Bethmann (1868-1951) were pioneers in Boston’s kindergarten education.
Emilie Bethmann (1844-1928) and her daughter Freida Bethmann (1868-1951) were pioneers in Boston’s kindergarten education, with Freida even teaching at the White House.
Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator
In 1936, Isobel Sinesi joined the faculty of the School of Fashion Design and led the school in developing its curriculum to focus entirely on fashion design.
Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008) did computing work at the Harvard Observatory from c.1945-c.1950 as an undergraduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe College.