Adelaide Johnson
American sculptor and suffragist
Category Archives: Activism > Suffrage
Continue reading
Dr Helen Cordelia Putnam
Co-founder of the American Child Health Association, organized to promote cleaner schools, better health care for children, and the teaching of health education with the involvement of parents in 1923. While serving as president of the American Academy of Medicine, she organized a conference that resulted in the establishment of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality.
Elizabeth Thatcher Kent
American suffragist and environmentalist
Helga Estby
Norwegian-American suffragist
Edna Brush Perkins
Social reformer, women’s rights activist, painter and poet
Vida Milholland
American suffragist and singer
Alice Meynell
Late-Victorian poet, journalist, and art critic.
Alice Locke Park
Park became a key member of the influential network of socialist-feminist women in California and fought for women’s emancipation.
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.
Sarah Tarleton Colvin
American nurse, author and National Women’s Party president