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Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy

Mary August Hickey Kennedy, grandmother of President John F. Kennedy, was a member of East Boston’s Irish elite, active in politics, including women’s suffrage.

Agnes Deans Cameron

1800s Canadian educator, writer, lecturer, and adventurer

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