Mary Owen
In 1975, Mary Owen (1921-2017) and Sylvie Shaw co-founded the Working Women’s Centre.
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Flora Díaz Parrado
Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist
Evelyn Darnovsky Bonder
Tireless advocate of opportunities for women in Ohio
Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley
Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley (1844-1928) was a founding member and the first president of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis was a leader in the Virginia and national woman suffrage movements.
Jennie Collins
In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.
Iris Calderhead
American suffragist
Minerva Kline Brooks
Ohio suffragist who also helped organize the precursor of the Cleveland Play House (1915), and introduced interpretive dance in both Cleveland and New York City.
Judith Winsor Smith
Spending seven decades at the center of the Boston suffrage movement, Judith Winsor Smith proudly claimed, “I believed in suffrage before there was such a word in the dictionary.”
Jessie Daniel Ames
Suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped build the anti-lynching movement in the American South