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Nina Otero-Warren
Nina Otero-Warren
American civil rights activist and educator
St. Gregory the Great
pope
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St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
Robert Owen
Robert Owen
British social reformer
Lathrop, Julia Clifford
Julia Clifford Lathrop
American social worker
Lillian D. Wald.
Lillian D. Wald
American sociologist
Jane Addams
Jane Addams
American social reformer
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
American activist
Abbott, Grace
Grace Abbott
American social worker
Holt, Winifred
Winifred Holt
American social worker
Hélder Pessoa Câmara
Brazilian bishop
Evangeline Cory Booth.
Evangeline Cory Booth
American religious leader
Booth, William
William Booth
British minister
Katharine Bement Davis.
Katharine Bement Davis
American penologist
Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins
United States secretary of labor
Abbott, Edith
Edith Abbott
American social worker
Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston
Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
American social worker, educator and lawyer
Sister Simone Campbell
Sister Simone Campbell
American nun, attorney, and poet
Thomas Chalmers, detail from an oil painting by Sir John Watson Gordon, c. 1837; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Thomas Chalmers
Scottish minister
Lugenia Burns Hope
American social reformer