Rosalind Poll Brooker
Rosalind Poll Brooker (1928-2016) was a trailblazer for women in the fields of law and politics.
Lydia Grinnell Brown
New Bedford’s Lydia Grinnell Brown (1892-1945) became the first African American graduate of Simmons College in Boston.
Emily Howland Bourne
Emily Howland Bourne (1835-1922) showed the same careful planning in her inspired philanthropy as her father Jonathan showed as one of New Bedford’s most successful whaling merchants.