Jennie Curtis, who was a seamstress in the repair shops, one of the most common jobs at the Pullman car shops for women. Her testimony in the U.S. Strike Commission Report gives us some insight into the nature of work at the Pullman factory.
Lucy Randolph Mason was a social liberal and prominent labor activist who took advantage of a genteel southern pedigree in order to promote the aggressive Congress of Industrial Organizations throughout the South from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms.
Cornelia Storrs Adair served as president of the National Education Association (NEA), a teachers’ union, from 1927 to 1928, the first classroom teacher to be elected to that position.
Aline E. Black was a teacher known primarily as a principal in a civil rights court case on equal pay.
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Electrical power supply pioneer and campaigner for women’s right to work at night.
Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Beautician and community activist who formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.
One of the women who fought back after they suffered radium poisoning while painting luminous numbers on watch, clock, and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut.