Vida Milholland
American suffragist and singer
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Miriam Fink
Polish-Australian activist
Dr Melnea Agnes Jones Cass
As a suffragist, clubwoman, and activist, Cass advocated for Boston’s most disadvantaged inhabitants.
Emma Pitcher
Indiana dunes environmental activist
Lillian Walker
Lillian Walker was an African American civil rights activist in Washington state.
Dixy Lee Ray
Marine biologist, professor at the University of Washington, and director of Seattle’s Pacific Science Center. Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), from 1973 to 1975. First woman elected governor of Washington.
Rosalie Gould
Rosalie Santine Gould lived near the Rohwer detention center in McGehee, Arkansas, and dedicated much of her time and efforts to preserving the story and the physical remains of the War Relocation Authority camp.
Dr Edyth Hull Schoenrich
Dr. Edyth Schoenrich was the first woman to be appointed to the American Board of Preventive Medicine and played a leading role in the development of one of the premier preventive medicine programs in the US at Johns Hopkins.
Alice Locke Park
Park became a key member of the influential network of socialist-feminist women in California and fought for women’s emancipation.
Alice Lord
Alice Lord sparked organization of the Seattle Waitresses Union, Local 240 (now Dining Employees Local #2) in March 1900, and orchestrated the union’s successful campaigns to promote landmark minimum wage and hour laws for working women.