Florence Peshine Eagleton
New Jersey leader in the woman suffrage movement and an advocate for women’s higher education.
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Lena Morrow Lewis
Alaska’s male-dominated government passed women’s suffrage, but female leaders organized and lobbied to make voting rights a reality. Lena Morrow Lewis traveled around Alaska in the 1910s and spoke to large audiences in Fairbanks, Valdez, and Juneau about voting rights and other social reform issues.
Lillian Ford Feickert
Lillian Ford Feickert was president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920.
Harriet Lafetra
New Jersey suffragist
Zuleikha Mayat
South African author and activist who led a life of courage, compassion and integrity
Samia Baho
Samia Baho has made an outstanding contribution to addressing the various barriers to ensure appropriate services are available for African women in Victoria, Australia.
Ida Mae Thompson
Ida Mae Thompson was an important figure in Virginia’s woman suffrage movement. First as a member of the Equal Suffrage League, the organization that led the effort to win women the right to vote, and then as a member of the League of Women Voters, Thompson collected and preserved the movement’s history.
Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith
Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith was a leader in the Virginia woman suffrage movement, cofounding Virginia branches of two national suffrage organizations.
Pat O’Shane
Advocate for the rights of women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Gisèle Halimi
Tunisian-born lawyer, feminist activist, and French politician