Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.
Irish suffragette and socialist
American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist
American educator and community leader
African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist
British activist in politics and social justice, particularly women’s suffrage.
Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’
American-Anglo stage actress
British suffragist
Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.