Lydia Nadejena
Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator
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Dr Anne Hagopian
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.
Annie Kriegel
During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.
Marjorie Drake Ross
Specialist on the decorative arts and author of The Book of Boston series, helped to acquire appropriate objects for the Gibson House and directed the cataloging of the collection.
Pat Kelly
President of the Boston Culinary Historians and editor of their newsletter for over 20 years.
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.
Wilhelmina Crosson
Apioneering African American educator who became the second president of Palmer Memorial Institute
Pauline Hopkins
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”
Sue Bailey Thurman
Sue Bailey Thurman (1903-1996) founded the Museum of African American History in 1963
Louise M Meekins
National Park Service park historian