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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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.
Gratia Alta Countryman
In June 1922, the Minneapolis Public Library book wagon made its first trip from Minneapolis to Excelsior, a small village on Lake Minnetonka. Riding aboard the book wagon was Gratia Countryman, the library system’s visionary director.
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.
Florence Rood
Florence Rood was one of the first Minnesota women activists in the Farmer Labor movement. She worked to improve the treatment of teachers and was active in their local and national organizations. Many of the successful struggles in which she participated informed the public of the importance of education and laid the groundwork for improved working conditions for educators.