Jessica Cox Henderson
State Secretary of the National Woman’s Party for Massachusetts, Secretary of the Citizens’ National Sacco and Vanzetti Committee
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Kate J Boeckh
National Women’s Party suffragist, aviator, inventor
Ruth Small
Office manager of the National Woman’s Suffrage Club of Boston
Sue Shelton White
Suffragist, lawyer, leader of the National Woman’s Party in Tennessee
Fanny Fligelman Brin
Fanny Fligelman Brin devoted her life to the causes of world peace, democracy, social justice, and Jewish welfare.
Sofia Reyes de Veyra
While advocating for Philippine independence and living in D.C., Sofia de Veyra and other Filipinas joined local women’s organizations that supported the American suffrage movement. Upon returning to the Philippines, these pioneering women formed women’s clubs and eventually won the right to vote on April 30, 1937.
Milagros Benet de Newton
Milagros Benet de Newton was a conservative women’s suffrage leader in Puerto Rico who supported voting rights for educated women.
Fannie Barrier Williams
Civil rights activist who helped found the National League of Colored Women in 1893
Harriet Forten Purvis
American abolitionist and suffragist who co-founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Mary Walsh Lee
Leader in the South Australian suffrage movement and a worker for working women.