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Jennie Loitman Barron

The first full time woman judge in Massachusetts and the first woman judge on the Massachusetts Superior Court

Maria Weston Chapman

A founder of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

Ednah Dow Cheney

American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.

Sophie de Condorcet

French intellectual and advocate for the downtrodden

Missouri T B Hanna

The “Mother of Journalism” in Washington.

Sarah Parker Remond

International anti-slavery lecturer and activist for African American and women’s suffrage. Later, she moved to Italy where she became a medical doctor.

Adelaide Johnson

American sculptor and suffragist

Co-founder of the American Child Health Association, organized to promote cleaner schools, better health care for children, and the teaching of health education with the involvement of parents in 1923. While serving as president of the American Academy of Medicine, she organized a conference that resulted in the establishment of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality.