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.”
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Jessie Daniel Ames
Suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped build the anti-lynching movement in the American South
Joséphine Marchand
Canadian journalist, writer, lecturer, and feminist activist
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.