Lucy Randolph Mason was a social liberal and prominent labor activist who took advantage of a genteel southern pedigree in order to promote the aggressive Congress of Industrial Organizations throughout the South from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Elizabeth “Eliza” Harriot Barons O’Connor was the first woman public lecturer in the United States, as well as a promoter of female education.
Lucy Johnson Barbour was an American women’s leader and Whig Party activist.
Emily Wayland Dinwiddie was an American social worker and reformer.
Esther Georgia Irving Cooper was a civil rights leader in Arlington County, Virginia.
Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.
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 was a civil rights activist and Democratic Party leader from Norfolk who helped overturn Virginia’s poll tax.
Irish-born American suffrage activist
Oney Judge was the enslaved personal attendant of Martha Custis Washington when she ran away from the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796.