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Edith Ainge

Treasurer and National Council member for the National Woman’s Party

Emily DuBois Butterworth

American suffragist and sculptor

Jessica Cox Henderson

State Secretary of the National Woman’s Party for Massachusetts, Secretary of the Citizens’ National Sacco and Vanzetti Committee

Kate J Boeckh

National Women’s Party suffragist, aviator, inventor

Ruth Small

Office manager of the National Woman’s Suffrage Club of Boston

Sue Shelton White

Suffragist, lawyer, leader of the National Woman’s Party in Tennessee

For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.

Fanny Fligelman Brin

Fanny Fligelman Brin devoted her life to the causes of world peace, democracy, social justice, and Jewish welfare.

Milagros Benet de Newton

Milagros Benet de Newton was a conservative women’s suffrage leader in Puerto Rico who supported voting rights for educated women.

Sofia Reyes de Veyra

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.