Irene Longman
Australian community worker and politician; the first woman elected to the Parliament of Queensland
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Mary Jamieson Williams
Mary Jamieson Williams was active in the temperance movement in Australia, becoming president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement in 1926.
Sara McLagan
Canadian newspaper publisher, journalist, and social reformer
Adolphine Fletcher Terry
Adolphine Fletcher Terry was a civic-minded woman from a prominent Little Rock, Arkansas family who used her position to improve schools and libraries, start a juvenile court system, provide affordable housing, promote the education of women and women’s rights, and challenge the racism of the Old South.
Hilda Taba
Estonian-American curriculum reformer
Lizzie Magie
Inventor of the board game Monopoly
Belle Moskowitz
Belle Moskowitz was a social reformer and political advisor so influential that, in her obituary, The New York Times called her the most powerful woman in U.S. politics.
Hilda Martindale
Irish social reform activist
Carry Nation
Carry Amelia Moore Nation was a US temperance advocate famous for being so vehemently against alcohol that she would use hatchets to smash any place that sold it.
Joyce McCartan
20th century Irish community worker