Lumina Sophie
1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.
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Amy Hertz
Committed feminist and an advocate for women, children, the poor, and the elderly in the US.
Róisín Walsh
Irish librarian and republican
Frances Wright
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
Annie Chemis
New Zealander who fought for the release of her imprisoned husband
Hazel Rennie
Peace and human rights activist
Auguste Fickert
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Patricia Grimshaw
Australian historian
Amy Wheaton
Australian social work educator and teacher
Fay Marles
Australian businesswoman, equal opportunity practitioner, social worker and university chancellor