Agnes Deans Cameron
1800s Canadian educator, writer, lecturer, and adventurer
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Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon
English viceregal consort in Canada and Ireland, feminist, social reformer, and author
Jennie MacMichael
Canadian suffragist
Idola Saint-John
A pioneer of women’s rights, Idola Saint-Jean founded in 1927 the Canadian Alliance for the Women’s Vote in Quebec.
Benita Galeana
Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.
Janetta Mary Ornsby
One of the seven founders of the Women’s Engineering Society in the UK
Laura Elizabeth McCully
1900s Canadian feminist, poet, journalist, and independent woman
Bess Bolden Walcott
American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist who helped establish the historical significance of the Tuskegee University.
Elisabeth Freeman
British-American women’s rights, civil rights and labor rights activist
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
One of five women who planned the women’s right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, she presided over numerous women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions.