Clara Fraser
Clara Fraser was incredibly passionate about workers and women’s rights as well as fighting against the segregation that was present in Seattle in the mid-1900s.
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Mary Player
New Zealand midwife, welfare worker, feminist and social reformer
Joan Baez
Folk singer and social rights activist Joan Baez uses her voice to advance social change.
Nancy Cook
Activist for woman’s suffrage, protective labor legislation for women, the abolishment of child labor, and world peace.
Renetta Predmore-Lynch
In 1972, Renetta Predmore-Lynch learned she had been denied a promotion because of her gender and registered a complaint with NSA’s Equal Employment Opportunity office. It was determined that the promotion process violated its own evaluation rules, and excluded women from the promotion boards.
Addie L Wyatt
One of the US’s foremost labor union leaders, women’s rights advocate and civil rights activist.
Clara Lemlich Shavelson
Clara Lemlich Shavelson is known primarily for her part in the 1909 garment workers strike in New York City, often referred to as the Uprising of 20,000.
Grace Lee Boggs
Chinese American civil rights and labor activist whose support for causes such as the Black Power movement, feminism, and the environment spanned over 70 years.
Emma Tenayuca
Emma Tenayuca was a Mexican-American labor organizer and civil rights activist who led strikes by women workers in Texas in the 1930s.
Frances Perkins
American workers-rights advocate, first women in the US Cabinet, fourth US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.