Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
German social psychologist who was influential on the development of the discipline in the United Kingdom
Sociologist and London School of Economics School Secretary in the 1930s
Poet, novelist and welfare activist
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.
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
English author
American speaker and writer
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. However, she was also critical in preserving the histories of formerly enslaved African Americans in the early twentieth century, fighting against preventable ailments in Black communities across the country, and for authoring a children’s book.