Sarah Bagley
While much of her life remains surrounded by questions, the record of Bagley’s experiences as a worker and activist in Lowell, Massachusetts reveals a remarkable spirit.
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Harriet Hanson Robinson
In 1881 Harriet Hanson Robinson became one of the founders of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Jennie Curtis
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
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
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms.
Cornelia Storrs Adair
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
Aline E. Black was a teacher known primarily as a principal in a civil rights court case on equal pay.
Laura Willson
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Margaret Partridge
Electrical power supply pioneer and campaigner for women’s right to work at night.
Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham
Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.