While advocating for Philippine independence and living in D.C., Sofia de Veyra and other Filipinas joined local women’s organizations that supported the American suffrage movement. Upon returning to the Philippines, these pioneering women formed women’s clubs and eventually won the right to vote on April 30, 1937.
Hannah Jensen Kempfer was the first woman from rural Minnesota elected to the state legislature, serving nine terms in the Minnesota legislature between 1922 and 1942.
Civil rights activist who helped found the National League of Colored Women in 1893
American abolitionist and suffragist who co-founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Leader in the South Australian suffrage movement and a worker for working women.
Canadian social reformer, suffragist, school trustee, secretary, probation officer, and Unity movement preacher
Suffragist, pacifist, leader of the National Woman’s Party in Massachusettsroughout the United States.
Suffragist and leader of the National Woman’s Party in Massachusetts
Canadian author, professor, activist, and filmmaker
American editor