Adaline Emerson Thompson
American educational worker and reformer
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Cornelia Foster Bradford
Cornelia Foster Bradford established the Whittier House, the first settlement house in New Jersey and a Jersey City social establishment, in 1894.
Judith Winsor Smith
Spending seven decades at the center of the Boston suffrage movement, Judith Winsor Smith proudly claimed, “I believed in suffrage before there was such a word in the dictionary.”
Lugenia Burns Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early 1900s social activist, reformer, and community organizer. Spending most of her career in Atlanta, she worked for the improvement of Black communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure.
Grace Longwell Coyle
American sociologist, author, and educator, specialized in social reform through group activity while professor at the School of Applied Sciences of Western Reserve University (later Case Western) for almost 30 years.
Victoria Earle Matthews
A writer, activist, club woman, and social worker, Victoria Earle Matthews dedicated herself to community uplift, civil rights, and helping others.
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