Tsuyako “Sox” Kitashima
San Francisco Bay Area-based Nisei redress activist who has been called the heart and soul of San Francisco National Coalition for Redress/Reparations
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Ruth A Myers
A persistent voice for Native children and their families, Myers focused on education policy as well as learning opportunities for Native students. She also produced curricula and resource materials that reflected Native American history and culture for all Minnesota learners.
Clara Ueland
Clara Ueland was a lifelong women’s rights activist and prominent Minnesotan suffragist.
Maria Sanford
One of the first female professors in the United States, Maria Sanford was an English professor at the University of Minnesota for nearly thirty years.
Pat Bellanger
Pat Bellanger was an Ojibwe activist and a cofounder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who spent over fifty years fighting for Indigenous rights on a national and local level.
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