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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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
Lucile S McDonald
Lucile Saunders McDonald distinguished herself in the fields of journalism and popular history through a prolific lifetime career that produced several thousand news features and columns, 13 published books on local history, an equal number of children’s books, and countless contributions to magazines, journals, and anthologies.
Dr Barbara Falk
Australian educator and education advocate
Alice Meynell
Late-Victorian poet, journalist, and art critic.
Alice Mühsam
German art tutor and restorer.
Angiola Maria Romanini
Professor of art history; directed the publications of the Enciclopedia Italiana, founder and director of the magazine Arte Medievale.