Rita Page Ruess
Rita Page Ruess, the first woman assistant U.S. attorney in Cleveland, left her post to join the Women’s Law Fund full-time in 1972.
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Agnes Deans Cameron
1800s Canadian educator, writer, lecturer, and adventurer
Kate McVicar
1800s Canadian union leader
Benita Galeana
Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.
Marie-Anne Laporte
Candian labour activist
Elisabeth Freeman
British-American women’s rights, civil rights and labor rights activist
Dr Ethel Percy Andrus
Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Catarina Eufémia
Portuguese farm worker Catarina Eufémia became a martyr for worker’s rights when she was murdered by a National Republican Guard lieutenant who shot her three times at close range in the back.
Johanna Scheepers
South African trade union leader and organizer
Joey Fourie
South African labor rights