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Pat Kelly

President of the Boston Culinary Historians and editor of their newsletter for over 20 years.

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.

Dorothy Vaughan

The first African-American female supervisor of the NACA, advancing to become an expert in digital computers and their applications in NASA programs.

Concert pianist, composer, teacher, lecturer, and author; director and founder of the Allied Arts Center and author of Negro Musicians and Their Music, a comprehensive survey of African-American music, as well as an arts critic and specialist in Creole music.

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.”

Evelyn Shakir

Evelyn Shakir was a scholar, author, and professor specializing in Arab American literature.

Dr Asunción Rangel

Mexican writer, editor, researcher and professor.

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.