Rosika Schwimmer
Rosika Schwimmer was a Hungarian peace activist, suffragist, and feminist.
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Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.
Dr Katie John
In 2019, the Alaska State Legislature designated May 31st as an official state holiday in honor of Dr Katie John for her contributions in defense of Alaska Native customary and traditional hunting, fishing, and gathering rights.
Sarah Winnemucca
Winnemucca worked as both an interpreter and negotiator between American Indian tribes and the U.S. Army during the “Indian wars” that occured throughout the American West in the decades after the Civil War.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was one of the most visible Progressive reformers of the early twentieth century United States.
Virginia Minor
American women’s suffrageist and plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case in which Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.
Maria W Stewart
Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. Stewart was one of the first women of any race to speak in public in the United States. She was also the first Black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto.
Leonora O’Reilly
A dynamic speaker and energetic union organizer, Leonora O’Reilly also made a significant contribution to the passage of women’s suffrage legislation at the state and federal levels in the US.
Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin
American suffragist and writer
Cecilia Cruz Bamba
Chamorro woman orphaned at the age of nine during the Japanese attacks on Guam in 1941. Motivated by the grandmother who raised her, Bamba became a senator, businesswoman, and community leader.