Zelia N. Breaux
Zelia N. Breaux was an American music teacher and musician who played the trumpet, violin and piano who organized the first music department at Oklahoma’s Langston University, as well as the school’s first orchestra.
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Kartini
Kartini was an Indonesian national hero, a pioneer in the area of education for girls and women’s rights for Indonesians.
Astrid Gøssel
Astrid Gøssel was a music educator who worked for many years as a movement educator.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters.
Amabel Anderson Arnold
Amabel Anderson Arnold LL.M. was an American lawyer and law professor who received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period.
Laura Wentworth Fowler
“No woman is better known in Boston’s musical and club circles than Laura Wentworth Fowler.”
Themistoclea
Themistoclea was a priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and Pythagoras’s teacher.
Malala Yousafzai
At age eleven, Malala Yousafzai was already advocating for the rights of women and girls. As an outspoken proponent for girls’ right to education, Yousafzai was often in danger because of her beliefs. However, even after being shot by the Taliban, she continued her activism and founded the Malala Fund with her father. By age seventeen, Yousafzai became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.