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Category Archives: Activism > Social Reform

Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve

Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve was the child of a military family and a crusader for the rights of disadvantaged people in Minnesota and beyond. Born during her parents’ journey to help build the future Fort Snelling, she lived to see a fledgling community grow into an urban center.

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Clara Ueland

Clara Ueland was a lifelong women’s rights activist and prominent Minnesotan suffragist.

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Fannie Barrier Williams

Civil rights activist who helped found the National League of Colored Women in 1893

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Adeline Davis

Canadian temperance reformer and author

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Maria Grant

Canadian social reformer, suffragist, school trustee, secretary, probation officer, and Unity movement preacher

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Ada Kepley

American attorney, temperance agitator and minister

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Abby Morton Diaz

American industrial reformer

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Ada Celeste Sweet

American reformer, pension agent and humanitarian

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Janie Porter Barrett

From her home in Hampton, Barrett founded the Locust Street Settlement House, serving her local Black community with classes, childcare, entertainments, and lectures.

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Rosa Dixon Bowser

A noted educator and nationally known club woman, Bowser developed night classes and led summer teaching institutes throughout the state of Virginia for African American educators. She would later become a founder and president of the Virginia State Teachers Association.

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