Anna Louise Strong
Prolific writer and journalist who brought socialist politics to the mountains when she co-founded Cooperative Campers of the Pacific Northwest in 1916.
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Honor Crowley
Irish politician
Henrietta de Grey
Countess de Grey , political hostess and philanthropist
Wetxuwiis
Wetxuwiis played a significant diplomatic role that led to the opening of trade with white settlers and provided the Corps of Discovery with critical information to help them reach the Columbia River and the Pacific coast.
Clara Lemlich Shavelson
Clara Lemlich Shavelson is known primarily for her part in the 1909 garment workers strike in New York City, often referred to as the Uprising of 20,000.
Anita Pollitzer
American suffragist
Elizabeth Fisher Read
Scholar and one of Eleanor Roosevelt’s earliest female political and feminist mentors
Frances Perkins
American workers-rights advocate, first women in the US Cabinet, fourth US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.
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.
Juanita J Craft
Juanita Jewel Craft was an American civil rights advocate and politician.