| Summary: | Educator and activist Caroline Hunter was born on September 5, 1946 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1968, she received her B.S. degree in chemistry from Xavier University. After graduation, Hunter was hired as a research chemist for the Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1970, upon the discovery of her employer's involvement in the South African apartheid system, she and her co-worker and future husband, Ken Williams, formed an anti-apartheid and boycott effort called the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement (PRWM). In 1971, Polaroid fired both Hunter and Williams, but the PRWM movement continued. By 1977, Polaroid completely pulled its operations out of South Africa. Hunter earned her M.Ed. degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and became assistant principal of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. She received the Rosa Parks Memorial Award from the National Education Association and co-founded the Ken Williams Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of her late husband.
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