Keran Howe
It was a car accident in 1972 that led Keran Howe towards her lifelong dedication to women’s health and advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities, particularly women.
Category Archives: Activism > Women’s Rights
Continue reading
Mary Latimer McLendon
Mary Latimer McLendon, along with her older sister Rebecca Latimer Felton, was a leader in the prohibition and woman suffrage movements in Georgia (US state).
Julia Flisch
Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Elsie Inglis
Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Maud Gonne
Irish nationalist, political activist, and subject of most of the love poetry of W. B. Yeats
Mathilda Cecilia Allen
Mathilda Allen helped lead a drawn-out women’s suffrage campaign in Washington, culminating in 1910 with ratification of a right-to-vote amendment in the Washington State Constitution.
Marion E Murdock
Marion E. Murdock served with Florence Buck as co-pastor of Unity Chapel (Unitarian Society of Cleveland) from 1893 to 1899.
Myra King Merrick
1800s American physician
Gertrude M Handrick
The first female lawyer in the Cleveland Bar Association.