Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund and an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life.
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“A, D, and G”
Between 1996 and 1997, three transgender women – known in in court records as A, D and G to protect their identities – were denied gender reassignment surgery by the North West Lancashire Health Authority in England. In 1999, the women brought a legal suit against the Health Authority.
Esther Hobart Morris
Esther Hobart Morris was the first woman to serve as Justice of the Peace in the United States. She was appointed justice of South Pass City, Wyoming after the previous justice resigned in protest after Wyoming Territory passed a woman suffrage amendment in December 1869.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was one of the most visible Progressive reformers of the early twentieth century United States.
Virginia Minor
American women’s suffrageist and plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case in which Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.
Shirley Smith
New Zealand human-rights campaigner and trail-blazing lawyer. As a community activist from the early 1950s she fought for social and political reform, while as a lawyer she spoke for those who had no voice and pursued equal rights for all.
Matilda Meech
New Zealand shopkeeper and businesswoman. In 1891, Meech filed suit against Wellington City Council for the pollution of her baths caused by their destructor plant; she won the case and £200 as compensation
Rāhui Te Kiri Tenetahi
Ngāti Wai and Ngāti Whatua woman of mana, ship owner and land claimant
Effie Richardson
New Zealand landowner and litigant