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Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley

Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley (1844-1928) was a founding member and the first president of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Jennie Collins

In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.

Helena Dudley

Director of Denison House, a woman-run settlement house that occupied three buildings In Boston for fifty years

Mary Bluett

Teacher and trade unionist

Hetty Gilbert

Hetty Gilbert was the first woman President of the Victorian Teachers’ Union, and fought for equal pay in education.

Elizabeth Stewart Magee

Fought to secure labor-reform legislation, especially protecting women and children

Josefina Vicens

Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights

Juliet Clannon Cushing

Juliet Clannon Cushing (1845-1935), an advocate of protective labor legislation for women and founded the Consumers’ League of New Jersey in 1900.

Sue Ko Lee was a Chinese American garment worker and labor organizer with the Chinese Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Association. In 1938, she participated in a successful 15-week strike against the National Dollar Stores garment factory. At the time, it was the longest strike in the history of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Lee went on to become a leader in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) in California.

Alberta Gonzalez

She and other workers staged the first Puerto Rican workers strike in New Jersey.