Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin
American suffragist and writer
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Florence Luscomb
Participating in women’s rights, civil rights, labor, and peace movements throughout the 1900s, Florence Luscomb embodied what it means to be an activist.
Zerelda Sanders Wallace
First Lady of Indiana from 1837 to 1840, and a temperance activist, women’s suffrage leader, and inspirational speaker in the 1870s and 1880s.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was one of the most visible Progressive reformers of the early twentieth century United States.
Virginia Minor
American women’s suffrageist and plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case in which Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.
Maria W Stewart
Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. Stewart was one of the first women of any race to speak in public in the United States. She was also the first Black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Lucy Burns
American suffragist
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.
Elizabeth Taylor
As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.