Blanche Woodson Braxton
In 1923, Blanche Woodson Braxton became the first African American woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. She later became the first African American woman admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court in the state.
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Mary Mildred Williams
American abolitionist
Mary Evans Wilson
NAACP organizer and founder of the Women’s Service Club
Maud Cuney Hare
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.
Mildred Davenport
Trailblazing dancer and renowned dance instructor.
Muriel Snowden
Co-founded Freedom House, Inc., a Boston nonprofit community-based organization dedicated to human rights and advocacy for African-Americans in Boston. Her leadership moved Freedom House into areas of urban renewal, minority employment, and educational equality for children as well as being a positive force for interracial cooperation
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.”
Jessie Garnett
Boston’s first African American woman dentist
Donna Summer
The Queen of Disco who won five Grammys and sold more than one hundred million records worldwide.
Dorothy West
Harlem Renaissance novelist