Sara McLagan
Canadian newspaper publisher, journalist, and social reformer
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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
Letitia Dunbar-Harrison
20th century Irish librarian and methodist activist
Judith Ellen Foster
Suffragist, temperance activist and lawyer who founded the Woman’s National Republican Association in 1888, declaring that “woman is politics.”