Adèle Clark
Adèle Clark was a founding member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, the chair of the Virginia League of Women Voters (1921–1925, 1929–1944), a New Deal–era field worker, and an accomplished artist and arts advocate.
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Sarah J Garnet
Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet is best known as the first Black female principal of a New York City public school.
Cornelia Templeton Hatcher
Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher drafted a petition that granted women the right to vote and gathered signatures around Alaska.
Molly Dewson
American feminist and political activist
Margaret Hinchey
A labor organizer and advocate for women’s suffrage, Margaret “Maggie” Hinchey rose to national prominence in the early decades of the 20th century.
Harriet Hanson Robinson
In 1881 Harriet Hanson Robinson became one of the founders of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Lucy Randolph Mason
Lucy Randolph Mason was a social liberal and prominent labor activist who took advantage of a genteel southern pedigree in order to promote the aggressive Congress of Industrial Organizations throughout the South from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Lila Meade Valentine
Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.
Pauline Adams
Irish-born American suffrage activist
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton was a civic leader who worked toward a more inclusive democracy in Roanoke, Virginia.