Eliza Harriot O’Connor
Elizabeth “Eliza” Harriot Barons O’Connor was the first woman public lecturer in the United States, as well as a promoter of female education.
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Lucy Johnson Barbour
Lucy Johnson Barbour was an American women’s leader and Whig Party activist.
Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
Emily Wayland Dinwiddie was an American social worker and reformer.
Esther Georgia Irving Cooper
Esther Georgia Irving Cooper was a civil rights leader in Arlington County, Virginia.
Lila Meade Valentine
Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon was a suffrage activist who worked for change at every level: as a grassroots organizer, a state politics watchdog, and a researcher at a federal agency.
Evelyn Thomas Butts
Evelyn Thomas Butts was a civil rights activist and Democratic Party leader from Norfolk who helped overturn Virginia’s poll tax.
Pauline Adams
Irish-born American suffrage activist
Oney Judge
Oney Judge was the enslaved personal attendant of Martha Custis Washington when she ran away from the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796.
Odessa Pittard Bailey
Odessa Pittard Bailey was a civic leader in western Virginia.