Aurora Cáceres
Peruvian writer and feminist active in the early 20th-century feminist movement in South America and recognized for her contributions to Peruvian literature, particularly through her novels and essays.
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Henrietta Edwards
Women’s rights activist and reformer who played a crucial role in the struggle for women’s suffrage in Canada and was a founding member of the influential women’s organizations
Julia Archibald Holmes
American suffragist and abolitionist, best known for being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1858.
Hallie Quinn Brown
African American educator, writer, and women’s rights activist, renowned for her contributions to education and the fight for racial and gender equality.
Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
Huda Sha’arawi
Pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, becoming a central figure in Egypt’s early feminist movement.
Frances Stewart
New Zealand women and children’s rights activist and the first female member of a New Zealand hospital board.
Isabella Tod
Irish feminist and reformer
Nathalie Lemel
Militant anarchist and feminist who participated on the barricades at the Commune de Paris of 1871
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.