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Florence Spearing Randolph

Florence Spearing Randolph (1866-1951) was a minister for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

Anna Whitehead Bodeker was a suffrage activist who worked to build an intellectual culture of gender equality in Richmond, Virginia through her writing and sponsorship of public talks by suffragist speakers.

Betty Gram Swing

Betty Gram Swing worked full time for the National Woman’s Party (NWP) from 1917-1920. A national organizer, she traveled across the United States to build grassroots support for the suffrage amendment.

Cordelia Greene Johnson

Cordelia Greene Johnson (1887-1957) founded the Modern Beautician Association and served as its president until her death.

Henrietta Dugdale

Henrietta Dugdale fought for women’s emancipation in 1800s Australia.

Helen Kirkpatrick Watts

Deaf British suffragist

Kate Harvey

Deaf British suffragist

Adèle Clark

Adèle Clark was a founding member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, the chair of the Virginia League of Women Voters (1921–1925, 1929–1944), a New Deal–era field worker, and an accomplished artist and arts advocate.

Sarah J Garnet

Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet is best known as the first Black female principal of a New York City public school.

Cornelia Templeton Hatcher

Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher drafted a petition that granted women the right to vote and gathered signatures around Alaska.