Katherine Gatty
Irish suffragette and socialist
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Nora Stanton Barney
American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist
Clara Byrd Baker
American educator and community leader
Blanche Armwood
African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist
Minnie Turner
British activist in politics and social justice, particularly women’s suffrage.
Mary Hare
Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’
Elizabeth Robins
American-Anglo stage actress
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
British suffragist
Helene Lange
Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.
Florence E Allen
The first female state supreme court judge in the US and one of the first two women federal judges.