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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 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

Dolores Jiménez y Muro

Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.

Susan Fessenden

Susan Fessenden (1840-1932) was a reformer and president of the Massachusetts WCTU, advocating for temperance, women’s suffrage, and assistance to the poor.