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.
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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.
Mary Hare
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
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Belarussian/Polish author
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
British suffragist