Social Reformers
No list of notable Rochesterians could ever omit Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, but the area has a long history of progressive social reformers. Anarchist Emma Goldman lived there for a time.
- Terry A. Anderson, former hostage and humanitarian
- Susan B. Anthony, women's rights leader
- Walter Cooper, research scientist, urban education reformer and civil rights activist
- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
- Emma Goldman, anarchist
- Helen Barrett Montgomery, social reformer and women’s activist
- Helen Pitts, abolitionist and feminist
- Samuel Ringgold Ward, African-American pastor and abolitionist
- Lillian Wald, public health nurse and social worker
- Frances Willard, suffragist and temperance reformer
- Fannie Barrier Williams, black social reformer
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