Modjeska Monteith Simkins
Influential civil rights activist and public health advocate
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Dr Helen Rodríguez Trías
Pioneering American pediatrician, educator, and women’s rights activist.
Diamanda Galás
American musician and singer-songwriter who passionately campaigns for AIDS education and the rights of those affected.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American labor leader, activist, and feminist. Flynn played a key role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.
Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
Mary Bolton
Irish alcholism counsellor
Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.
Marie Fleming
Irish campaigner for assisted suicide
Kitty Seville
New Zealand health and welfare worker
Amparo Poch y Gascón
Amparo Poch y Gascón was a significant Spanish figure in the fields of anarchism, pacifism, medicine, and activism during the Spanish Civil War.