Joséphine Marchand
Canadian journalist, writer, lecturer, and feminist activist
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Dr Fannie Almara Quain
Dr. Fannie Quain earned a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1898 and was a co-founder of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Association (now the American Lung Association of North Dakota).
Jennie Wyse Power
Irish nationalist and suffragist
Ellen Powell Thompson
American explorer and botanist
Carrie Williams Clifford
Orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and African-Americans. She helped found the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women in 1900 and served as its first president while she lived in Cleveland.
Josefina Vicens
Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights
Mary Brown Martin
The first African-American woman elected to the Cleveland Board of Education
Paula Kassell
Paula Kassell (b.1917) founded and edited New Directions for Women in New Jersey, the first feminist publication in the country.
Margaret Laird
Margaret Laird (1861-1978) of Essex County was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, and was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly.
Dr Jill Ker Conway
Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.