Edith Ainge
Treasurer and National Council member for the National Woman’s Party
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Emily DuBois Butterworth
American suffragist and sculptor
Jessica Cox Henderson
State Secretary of the National Woman’s Party for Massachusetts, Secretary of the Citizens’ National Sacco and Vanzetti Committee
Kate J Boeckh
National Women’s Party suffragist, aviator, inventor
Ruth Small
Office manager of the National Woman’s Suffrage Club of Boston
Sue Shelton White
Suffragist, lawyer, leader of the National Woman’s Party in Tennessee
Meridel Le Sueur
For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.
Liang May Seen
Liang May Seen was the first woman of Chinese descent to live in Minnesota. She overcame an impoverished childhood in China and teenage years spent in a San Francisco brothel to become a respected leader in the Chinese immigrant community in Minneapolis.
Marvel Cooke
Marvel Cooke was a pioneering journalist and political activist who spent her groundbreaking career in a world where she was often the only female African American.
Fanny Fligelman Brin
Fanny Fligelman Brin devoted her life to the causes of world peace, democracy, social justice, and Jewish welfare.