Grace Longwell Coyle
American sociologist, author, and educator, specialized in social reform through group activity while professor at the School of Applied Sciences of Western Reserve University (later Case Western) for almost 30 years.
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Victoria Earle Matthews
A writer, activist, club woman, and social worker, Victoria Earle Matthews dedicated herself to community uplift, civil rights, and helping others.
Leonora Barry
Leonora Barry (1849-1923) was the first woman paid to be a labor investigator in the US.
Mina Caroline Van Winkle
Mina Van Winkle (1875-1932) of Newark organized the Equality League for Self-Supporting Women of New Jersey in 1908.
Ada Norris
Dame Ada Norris was an Australian women’s rights activist and community worker. She was dedicated to raising the status of women.
Molly Dewson
American feminist and political activist
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.
Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
Emily Wayland Dinwiddie was an American social worker and reformer.
Lila Meade Valentine
Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.
Angela Russell
Irish physician and social reformer