Rosa Mary Barrett
Irish philanthropist, child-care worker, and suffragist
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Charlotte Maxeke
South African religious and civil rights activist
Villa Baker
South African political activist
Cecilia Makiwane
South African nurse and political activist
Viola Hashe
South African political activist and teacher
Bertha Solomon
South African lawyer, politician and women’s rights activist
Bertha Gxowa
South African anti-apartheid, labor rights and women’s rights activist
Bertha Mkhize
South African teacher, trade unionist, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who gained legal emancipation as a feme sole operating a business in her own right.
Dr Almah J Frisby
Early 1900s American physician
Lee Minto
Lee Minto (b. 1927), executive director of Planned Parenthood of Seattle-King County from 1967 until her retirement in 1993, played a key role in the campaign for Referendum 20, which legalized abortion in Washington state in 1970.