Abigail May Alcott
American suffragist, abolitionist and one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts
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Nell Richardson
On April 6, 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York to cross the United States stumping for the women’s right to vote. Traveling in the Golden Flyer, a yellow two-seater, the suffragettes embarked on a five month cross-continent trip across many dirt and gravel roads. Armed with a fireless cooker, hand sewing machine, typewriter, and a cat named Saxon, the women spoke tirelessly across the country to garner support and encourage women to attend parades at the 1916 Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and St. Louis.
Alice Burke
On April 6, 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York to cross the United States stumping for the women’s right to vote. Traveling in the Golden Flyer, a yellow two-seater, the suffragettes embarked on a five month cross-continent trip across many dirt and gravel roads. Armed with a fireless cooker, hand sewing machine, typewriter, and a cat named Saxon, the women spoke tirelessly across the country to garner support and encourage women to attend parades at the 1916 Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and St. Louis.
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Native Amerian lawyer and activist
Eliza Ann Gardner
Remembered as someone “pointed and convincing in speech, winning in manner, [and] overpowering in appeal,” community and religious leader Eliza Ann Gardner exemplified the social activist tradition within African-American churches.
Mary Powell
New Zealand temperance worker and suffragist
Annie Schnackenberg
New Zealand Wesleyan missionary, temperance and welfare worker and suffragist
Sophia Taylor
New Zealand hostess, suffragist and landowner
Rachel Don
New Zealand church and community worker
Harriet Keeler
Keeler was a Cleveland educator, botanist, author, suffragist, and lover of nature. Each aspect of her self-made career brought her a measure of celebrity far beyond northeast Ohio.