Anita Lett
Irish rural activist
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Dr Ida Sophia Scudder
In 1902, Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder founded the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, India.
Lucy Randolph Mason
Lucy Randolph Mason was a social liberal and prominent labor activist who took advantage of a genteel southern pedigree in order to promote the aggressive Congress of Industrial Organizations throughout the South from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Eliza Harriot O’Connor
Elizabeth “Eliza” Harriot Barons O’Connor was the first woman public lecturer in the United States, as well as a promoter of female education.
Lucy Johnson Barbour
Lucy Johnson Barbour was an American women’s leader and Whig Party activist.
Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
Emily Wayland Dinwiddie was an American social worker and reformer.
Esther Georgia Irving Cooper
Esther Georgia Irving Cooper was a civil rights leader in Arlington County, Virginia.
Lila Meade Valentine
Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon was a suffrage activist who worked for change at every level: as a grassroots organizer, a state politics watchdog, and a researcher at a federal agency.
Evelyn Thomas Butts
Evelyn Thomas Butts was a civil rights activist and Democratic Party leader from Norfolk who helped overturn Virginia’s poll tax.