Milagros Benet de Newton
Milagros Benet de Newton was a conservative women’s suffrage leader in Puerto Rico who supported voting rights for educated women.
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Sofia Reyes de Veyra
While advocating for Philippine independence and living in D.C., Sofia de Veyra and other Filipinas joined local women’s organizations that supported the American suffrage movement. Upon returning to the Philippines, these pioneering women formed women’s clubs and eventually won the right to vote on April 30, 1937.
Hannah Jensen Kempfer
Hannah Jensen Kempfer was the first woman from rural Minnesota elected to the state legislature, serving nine terms in the Minnesota legislature between 1922 and 1942.
Fannie Barrier Williams
Civil rights activist who helped found the National League of Colored Women in 1893
Harriet Forten Purvis
American abolitionist and suffragist who co-founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Mary Walsh Lee
Leader in the South Australian suffrage movement and a worker for working women.
Maria Grant
Canadian social reformer, suffragist, school trustee, secretary, probation officer, and Unity movement preacher
Katherine Morey
Suffragist, pacifist, leader of the National Woman’s Party in Massachusettsroughout the United States.
Agnes H Morey
Suffragist and leader of the National Woman’s Party in Massachusetts
Naomi Klein
Canadian author, professor, activist, and filmmaker