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West Fairmount Hill Community Group Celebrates Women’s History month through these podcast talks.
Amanda M. Lougee
(1844-1922)
Defying gender expectations of her time, she became the sole owner of the family’s rubber-gossamer manufacturing plant in the Clarendon Hills section of Hyde Park, MA. In 1897 she employed 275 people and eventually held 7 patents including ones for fireproof fabric and wire, a rubber ball, and covered buttons.
Amandawas also active in the women’s suffrage movement and the Association of the Advancement of Women.
Angelina Weld Grimké
(1880-1958)
Angelina Weld Grimké was the great niece of Angelina and Sarah Grimké. She went to the Fairmount School, and the Boston Normal School for Gymnastics. She was a teacher, journalist playwright and poet. The role of race in American life was a prominent topic in her most famous work, the play Rachel which was first produced by the NAACP in 1916. Her writings are considered a pre-cursor to the Harlem Renaissance. Her poetry and unpublished works hint at an unfulfilled life as a closeted lesbian.
Mehitable Ewins Sunderland
(1807-1901)
Mehitable Sunderland was considered the first physician in Hyde Park although she did not have formal medical training. She owned sixteen houses and was always willing to rent to Back families. She was active in abolitionist movement and was part of the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women. As a strong advocate for women’s suffrage she was one of the group of women who marched to the voting place in Hyde Park in November of 1870, determined to prove that women should have the right to vote.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
(1831-1895)
Rebecca Davis came to the Boston area from Pennsylvania and worked as a nurse before graduating from the New England Female Medical College in 1864. She was the first Black women to earn a medical degree in the United States. Her focus was maternal and child health, and after the Civil War, she worked for the Medical Division of the Freedmen’ Bureau in Richmond Virginia. She settled in Hyde Park in the 1880’s where she wrote the commonsense self- help style, A Book of Medical Discourses In Two Parts (1883).
The City of Boston proclaimed February 8, 2021, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day. No know image of Dr. Crumpler has yet to be found.