Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882) – Born to prominent African-American abolitionists—her father was Robert Douglass, a founder of Philadelphia’s first African Presbyterian Church; her mother, Quaker milliner and teacher, Grace Bustill Douglass—Mapps Douglass opened her own school for African-American children in her home and later worked as an administrator and teacher at the Institute for Colored Youth, which opened in 1837 at 7th and Lombard Streets and moved to Bainbridge Street in 1861. In 1833, Douglass and her mother helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, an interracial organization. Sarah also helped found the Female Literary Association of Philadelphia, which encouraged education for young women of color; contributed to The Liberator, published by William Lloyd Garrison; and worked in the Women’s Pennsylvania Branch of the American Freedmen’s Aid Commission. She also studied anatomy, women’s health and hygiene, becoming the first African-American female student at the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania.