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Category Archives: Activism > Social Reform

Mary Player

New Zealand midwife, welfare worker, feminist and social reformer

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Margaret Caro

New Zealand dentist, Seventh-day Adventist and social reformer

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Ada M Bittenbender

American lawyer and reformer

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Ada Mary Courtice

Canadian educator, social reformer, and office holder

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Josephine St Pierre Ruffin

An activist at heart, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin assumed many public roles throughout her life, from publisher and clubwoman to community leader and national organizer.

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Frances Perkins

American workers-rights advocate, first women in the US Cabinet, fourth US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.

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Rose Schneiderman

Rose Schneiderman’s fierce advocacy for women and workers earned her a reputation as “a tiny, red-haired bundle of social dynamite.” She was a leading voice in the trade union movement for over fifty years, organizing on the shop floor, the street corner, and in the halls of Congress and the White House.

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Zerelda Sanders Wallace

First Lady of Indiana from 1837 to 1840, and a temperance activist, women’s suffrage leader, and inspirational speaker in the 1870s and 1880s.

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Crystal Eastman

Crystal Eastman was one of the most visible Progressive reformers of the early twentieth century United States.

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Leonora O’Reilly

A dynamic speaker and energetic union organizer, Leonora O’Reilly also made a significant contribution to the passage of women’s suffrage legislation at the state and federal levels in the US.

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