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.
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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.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.
Edith Brown
Librarian who co-founded Boston’s Paul Revere Pottery, which provided worthwhile employment for young North End Italian and Jewish women
Edith Guerrier
Artist who co-founded Boston’s Paul Revere Pottery, which provided worthwhile employment for young North End Italian and Jewish women
Gladys A Moore Perdue
Boston organist
E Alice Taylor
Beautician and community activist, formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.
Margarita Muñiz
Margarita Muñiz (1950-2011) worked in Boston Public Schools for 39 years, 30 of them as the principal of the Rafael Hernandez School, the premier dual language school in Massachusetts.
Dr Evelyn Abdalah Menconi
Lebanese-American cultural ambassador in Boston