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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.

Josefina Vicens

Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights

Mary Brown Martin

The first African-American woman elected to the Cleveland Board of Education

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884-September 12, 1966) was a jurist whose career marked a series of firsts for women.

Paula Kassell

Paula Kassell (b.1917) founded and edited New Directions for Women in New Jersey, the first feminist publication in the country.

Margaret Laird

Margaret Laird (1861-1978) of Essex County was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, and was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly.

Dr Jill Ker Conway

Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.

Henriette W Johnson

Suffragist Henriette W. Johnson was elected president of the Woman’s Club of Orange, which was the first woman’s club in New Jersey when it was founded in 1872.

Source: http://www.njwomenshistory.org/discover/biographies/henriette-w-johnson/

Mina Caroline Van Winkle

Mina Van Winkle (1875-1932) of Newark organized the Equality League for Self-Supporting Women of New Jersey in 1908.

Mary Philbrook

Mary Philbrook (1872-1958) was the first woman admitted to the bar in New Jersey.