Dr Virginia M Alexander
African-American physician, researcher, and public health advocate who broke significant barriers in medicine and academia.
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Miriam Makeba
Renowned South African singer and civil rights activist.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins
Influential civil rights activist and public health advocate
Juanita Abernathy
American civil rights activist and educator
Henrietta Edwards
Women’s rights activist and reformer who played a crucial role in the struggle for women’s suffrage in Canada and was a founding member of the influential women’s organizations
Josephine Roche
American humanitarian, labor activist, and businesswoman.
Julia Archibald Holmes
American suffragist and abolitionist, best known for being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1858.
Anna Kuliscioff
Russian-Italian revolutionary known for her activism and political beliefs,
Halyna Kuzmenko
Ukrainian teacher and anarcho-feminist revolutionary known for her significant role in the Makhnovshchina movement, which aimed to establish a libertarian communist society in southern Ukraine.
Florence Merriam Bailey
American ornithologist, naturalist, and author