Alice Gray
In 1915, Alice Gray’s extraordinary life took a twist when she shunned the conventional world to live along Indiana’s wild shore.
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Andrea Mead Lawrence
Andrea Mead first competed in the Olympics, at just age 15, in the 1948 Olympics.
Dr Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy
Dr. Lovejoy was the first woman to direct a city department of health, the Portland Board of Health, in Oregon and was co-founder and first director of the Medical Women’s International Association.
Sue Jamieson
Lawyer in the landmark disability rights case Olmstead v. L.C.
Elaine Wilson
Defendant in the landmark disability rights case Olmstead v. L.C.
Sallie R Wagner
Sallie R. Wagner was a photographer, author, weaver, and a benefactor and patron of dancer-choreographer Erick Hawkins and his dance company.
Harriet Duncan Hobart
Advocate for temperance and women’s suffrage. She was president of the Minnesota Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for seventeen years and urged the WCTU to work on behalf of women’s rights more broadly.
Helen E McMillan
As a legislator, Helen E. McMillan served Mower County for twelve years. She was also involved in the Red Cross, the Women’s League of Voters, the Human Rights Commission, and the United Council for Church Women.
Julia Bullard Nelson
Nelson spent the summers of the 1870s and 1880s in Minnesota, where she emerged as a state and national leader in the movement for women’s suffrage and the temperance campaign against alcohol use.
Irene Levine Paull
Writer and activist Irene Levine Paull responded to discrimination by fighting for the rights of people who were oppressed.