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Ding Ling

Prominent Chinese writer and intellectual of the 1900s.

Clara Byrd Baker

American educator and community leader

Rajani Thiranagama

Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist, feminist, and academic, best known for her work in exposing human rights abuses during the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Nellie McClung

Social activist, politician, author, and one of the most important figures in the Canadian suffragist movement.

Blanche Armwood

African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist

Jane Wilde

Irish poet, nationalist, and feminist

Minnie Turner

British activist in politics and social justice, particularly women’s suffrage.

Margaret Bondfield

In 1929, she became Britain’s first female cabinet member.

Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’

Elizabeth Robins

American-Anglo stage actress