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Edna Brush Perkins

Social reformer, women’s rights activist, painter and poet

Bel Marie Gardner

Bel Marie Williams Gardner was a teacher, police matron, and social worker who made child welfare her primary purpose and legacy.

Alice Locke Park

Park became a key member of the influential network of socialist-feminist women in California and fought for women’s emancipation.

Flo Ware

Florasina Ware was the quintessential activist, known in Seattle for raising a strong and logical voice on behalf of children, the elderly, and the poor.

Harriet E Bishop

Harriet Bishop, best known as the founder of St. Paul’s first public and Sunday schools, was also a social reformer, land agent, and writer.

Winona Flett

Canadian suffragist and social reformer

Eliza Douglas Keith

American educator, author, journalist, social reformer and suffragist

Advocate for temperance and women’s suffrage. She was president of the Minnesota Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for seventeen years and urged the WCTU to work on behalf of women’s rights more broadly.

Julia Bullard Nelson

Nelson spent the summers of the 1870s and 1880s in Minnesota, where she emerged as a state and national leader in the movement for women’s suffrage and the temperance campaign against alcohol use.

Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens

Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens (1869-1943) was a sculptor, activist, and member of the Cornish Art Colony.