Emily Newell Blair
American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.
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Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson was a fifth-generation Mormon who became active in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Johnson co-founded Mormons for ERA. Her activism led to her excommunication from the LDS Church and influenced her decision to run for President.
Lois Jenson
Plaintiff in the U.S.’s first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit
Lucretia del Valle Grady
Mexican-American suffragist and actor
Aurora Lucero-White Lea
Latina U.S. suffragist and folklorist
Mary Macnab
Canadian teacher, social activist, and author
Martha McTier
1700s and 1800s Irish activist and writer
Maude Comstock Waitt
The first woman from Cuyahoga County to be elected to the Ohio Senate in 1922, two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Matilda Ridout Edgar
Canadian historian and feminist
Dr Amelia Yeomans
Canadian physician and social reformer