Hilda Tweedy
Irish activist for women’s rights and in consumer affairs
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Anna Essinger
German Jewish educator renowned for her contributions to education.
Shulamith Firestone
Canadian-American radical feminist, central to shaping early radical feminism and the second-wave movement.
Xiang Jingyu
Ttrailblazing figure in the early history of the Chinese Communist Party and a pioneering force in the women’s rights movement in China.
Katharine Coman
Influential American social activist and educator.
Sofka Skipwith
Russian princess who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.
Teresa Wilms Montt
Chilean writer and poet known for her anarcha-feminist beliefs.
Miriam O’Brien Underhill
Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs
Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.
Marie Wilcox
The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.