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Queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 600s BCE
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman appointed to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continues to fight for DC statehood in her third decade as a congresswoman.
Dr LaNada War Jack
LaNada War Jack is an indigenous activist, who since childhood, has fought to preserve Native American identity and tribal rights.
Mary Kate Ryan
Irish academic and political activist
Min Ryan
Irish teacher and political activist
Josephine McNeill
Irish diplomat
Dagmar Šimková
Following the communist coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia, as many as 100,000 people were prosecuted for ‘political crimes’, most of whom were sentenced to lengthy periods in penal institutions and forced labour camps, including Dagmar Šimková, who later produced a detailed autobiographical account of her experiences in prison, Byly jsme tam taky [“We were there too”].
Sydney Czira
Irish journalist, broadcaster, and republican
Philomena Ryan
Irish chemist
Elizabeth Yates
New Zealand politician of the late 1800s