Emily Nokes
Emily Nokes is a musical artist, writer, feminist and advocate for abortion rights.
Emily Nokes is a musical artist, writer, feminist and advocate for abortion rights.
One of the first African American women to make her mark in the suffragist movement
Clara Fraser was incredibly passionate about workers and women’s rights as well as fighting against the segregation that was present in Seattle in the mid-1900s.
From Washington to D.C., Tulalip Tribe Vice-Chairwomxn Deborah Parker is a pillar of Indigenous leadership and activism about violence against Indigenous women.
American suffragist, abolitionist and one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts
Visual activist who documents Black gay, lesbian, transgender, and intersex people in South Africa.
On April 6, 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York to cross the United States stumping for the women’s right to vote. Traveling in the Golden Flyer, a yellow two-seater, the suffragettes embarked on a five month cross-continent trip across many dirt and gravel roads. Armed with a fireless cooker, hand sewing machine, typewriter, and a cat named Saxon, the women spoke tirelessly across the country to garner support and encourage women to attend parades at the 1916 Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and St. Louis.
On April 6, 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York to cross the United States stumping for the women’s right to vote. Traveling in the Golden Flyer, a yellow two-seater, the suffragettes embarked on a five month cross-continent trip across many dirt and gravel roads. Armed with a fireless cooker, hand sewing machine, typewriter, and a cat named Saxon, the women spoke tirelessly across the country to garner support and encourage women to attend parades at the 1916 Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and St. Louis.
Native Amerian lawyer and activist
In her parallel ministries within the Salvation Army and the National Council of Women, she used both her platform ability and her fine administrative skills to champion the cause of women.