Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.
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Abby Williams May
American suffragist and educator
Katharine Parsons
Militant feminist and founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Laura Willson
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Hermila Galindo
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Georgina Kermode
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer
Salome Merritt
1800s American physician, suffragist and lecturer who also played an important role in the civic life of Boston.
Susan Fessenden
Susan Fessenden (1840-1932) was a reformer and president of the Massachusetts WCTU, advocating for temperance, women’s suffrage, and assistance to the poor.
Susan Walker Fitzgerald
The first woman Democrat elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature. Having worked actively in the statewide suffrage campaign, she was elected in 1922 and served one term.
Amanda Melvina Lougee
Suffragist and inventor who took over management of Clifton Manufacturing Company when her brother died