Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis was a leader in the Virginia and national woman suffrage movements.
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Jennie Collins
In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.
Iris Calderhead
American suffragist
Minerva Kline Brooks
Ohio suffragist who also helped organize the precursor of the Cleveland Play House (1915), and introduced interpretive dance in both Cleveland and New York City.
Judith Winsor Smith
Spending seven decades at the center of the Boston suffrage movement, Judith Winsor Smith proudly claimed, “I believed in suffrage before there was such a word in the dictionary.”
Jessie Daniel Ames
Suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped build the anti-lynching movement in the American South
Dr Fannie Almara Quain
Dr. Fannie Quain earned a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1898 and was a co-founder of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Association (now the American Lung Association of North Dakota).
Jennie Wyse Power
Irish nationalist and suffragist
Ellen Powell Thompson
American explorer and botanist
Carrie Williams Clifford
Orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and African-Americans. She helped found the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women in 1900 and served as its first president while she lived in Cleveland.