A suffragist, teacher, social worker, civil rights advocate, and graduate of Howard University (1892), Blanche Williams Stubbs lived at 827 Tatnall Street during her decades of activism. She was a founder and, for over four decades, executive director of the Thomas Garrett Settlement House, an African American community center that provided a variety of social services and meeting spaces to city residents. As a founding member of the Wilmington Equal Suffrage Study Club, she led the group in the city's first big suffrage parade (1914). She and her husband, Dr. J. B. Stubbs, were early supporters of the city's NAACP chapter (chartered in 1915), participating in protests against restrictions on Black residents' access to public parks and spaces. A dedicated club woman, she was the first president of the Delaware Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.