Ednah Dow Cheney
American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
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María Feliciana Arballo
María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga played a crucial role in the Japanese-American redress movement by discovering critical evidence of premeditated governmental misconduct during WWII, and making it available to multiple groups of activists.
Momo Nagano
Momo Nagano (1925-2010) was an artist renowned for her weaving and other textile works.
Deb Haaland
Secretary Deb Haaland made history when she became the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.
Adeline Davis
Canadian temperance reformer and author
Hazel Wolf
Hazel Wolf was well known as an environmentalist and social activist.
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white person months before Rosa Parks.
Cori Bush
As a member of Congress, Bush pushes for progressive legislative goals that will benefit her constituents—people just like her.
Dr Sharon M Malotte
Dr. Sharon Malotte was the first indigenous Nevadan to become a doctor in 1989.