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Mary Kenney O’Sullivan

Suffragist and one of the principal founders of the National Women’s Trade Union League in 1903.

Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Jennie Loitman Barron

The first full time woman judge in Massachusetts and the first woman judge on the Massachusetts Superior Court

Maria Weston Chapman

A founder of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

Ednah Dow Cheney

American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.

Sophie de Condorcet

French intellectual and advocate for the downtrodden

Missouri T B Hanna

The “Mother of Journalism” in Washington.

Rose Finkelstein Norwood

Indefatigable union activist and organizer.

Sarah Parker Remond

International anti-slavery lecturer and activist for African American and women’s suffrage. Later, she moved to Italy where she became a medical doctor.