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 was president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920.
New Jersey suffragist
South African author and activist who led a life of courage, compassion and integrity
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 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 was a leader in the Virginia woman suffrage movement, cofounding Virginia branches of two national suffrage organizations.
Advocate for the rights of women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Tunisian-born lawyer, feminist activist, and French politician
In 1975, Mary Owen (1921-2017) and Sylvie Shaw co-founded the Working Women’s Centre.