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Sadie L Adams

Influential African-American teacher, suffragist, and clubwoman who made significant contributions to the women’s suffrage movement and social improvement initiatives in Chicago.

Faizunnesa Choudhurani

Influential Bangladeshi Zamindar (ruler) celebrated for her pioneering work advocating for female education and addressing other social issues in South Asia.

Gretta Cousins

Irish suffragist, educator, and theosophist

Peruvian writer and feminist active in the early 20th-century feminist movement in South America and recognized for her contributions to Peruvian literature, particularly through her novels and essays.

Henrietta Edwards

Women’s rights activist and reformer who played a crucial role in the struggle for women’s suffrage in Canada and was a founding member of the influential women’s organizations

Julia Archibald Holmes

American suffragist and abolitionist, best known for being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1858.

Hallie Quinn Brown

African American educator, writer, and women’s rights activist, renowned for her contributions to education and the fight for racial and gender equality.

Dora Mayer

Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.

Huda Sha’arawi

Pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, becoming a central figure in Egypt’s early feminist movement.