Ailsa O’Connor
Ailsa O’Connor linked her art to society, both the themes she developed in her art and in the essays she wrote to explain the role of art in society.
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Sarah J Garnet
Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet is best known as the first Black female principal of a New York City public school.
Cornelia Templeton Hatcher
Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher drafted a petition that granted women the right to vote and gathered signatures around Alaska.
Anne Turpeau
Washington DC activist
Ada Norris
Dame Ada Norris was an Australian women’s rights activist and community worker. She was dedicated to raising the status of women.
Molly Dewson
American feminist and political activist
Elizabeth M Conard
Abortion rights advocate who helped start the Charlotte Planned Parenthood chapter
Harriet Hanson Robinson
In 1881 Harriet Hanson Robinson became one of the founders of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Jennie Curtis
Jennie Curtis, who was a seamstress in the repair shops, one of the most common jobs at the Pullman car shops for women. Her testimony in the U.S. Strike Commission Report gives us some insight into the nature of work at the Pullman factory.
Margaret Hinchey
A labor organizer and advocate for women’s suffrage, Margaret “Maggie” Hinchey rose to national prominence in the early decades of the 20th century.