Dr Ethel Percy Andrus
Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
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Annie Gardner Barr
Canadian artist and social reformer
Mary Matilda Brown
South African social reformer and temperance activist
Henrietta Rebecca Stakesby Lewis
South African temperance activist
Mary Ware Dennett
American women’s rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate and trailblazer in the areas of birth control, sex education and suffrage, who co-founded the National Birth Control League in 1915
Savitribai Phule
Indian educator, social reformer, and poet, widely considered the first female teacher of modern India.
Donaldina Cameron
New Zealand-American social reformer who worked to protect Chinese women and girls from trafficking
Clara Shortridge Foltz
American lawyer and women’s rights activist
Rebecca Cromwell Rouse
American social-services organizer and reformer
Julia Walworth Long
Ohio temperance activist who helped organize two Presbyterian churches in Cleveland and devoted much time to social service