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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.