Dr Zelma Watson George
African-American opera singer, educator, and civic leader
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Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Hilde Himmelweit
German social psychologist who was influential on the development of the discipline in the United Kingdom
Jessy Mair
Sociologist and London School of Economics School Secretary in the 1930s
Minnie Haskins
Poet, novelist and welfare activist
Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.
Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Harriet Martineau
English author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American speaker and writer