Edith Van Horn
Labor leader with the United Auto Workers for decades
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Mary Macarthur
Scottish suffragist and trade unionist
Moa Martinson
Prominent figure in Sweden’s proletarian literature
Edith Simcox
British philosopher, writer, trade union activist, and feminist.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American labor leader, activist, and feminist. Flynn played a key role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.
May Palmer
New Zealand public servant, union official and equal pay campaigner
Alice Childress
American playwright, actress, and author
Laudelina de Campos Melo
Afro-Brazilian activist and labor organizer.
Dolores Cacuango
Pioneering advocate for indigenous and farmer rights in Ecuador, who played a key role in the early Ecuadorian feminist movement from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Emilia Dilke
British author, art historian, feminist, and trade unionist.