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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.

Adèle Clark was a founding member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, the chair of the Virginia League of Women Voters (1921–1925, 1929–1944), a New Deal–era field worker, and an accomplished artist and arts advocate.

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.