Betty Gram Swing
Betty Gram Swing worked full time for the National Woman’s Party (NWP) from 1917-1920. A national organizer, she traveled across the United States to build grassroots support for the suffrage amendment.
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Cordelia Greene Johnson
Cordelia Greene Johnson (1887-1957) founded the Modern Beautician Association and served as its president until her death.
Henrietta Dugdale
Henrietta Dugdale fought for women’s emancipation in 1800s Australia.
Ida Cohen Rosenthal
Co-founder and president of the brassiere company Maidenform, Inc.
Monique Wittig
An influential lesbian feminist and avant-garde writer, Monique Wittig (1935-2003) challenged the heteronormativity of early Second Wave French feminists and was an active novelist, philosopher, and activist.
Helen Kirkpatrick Watts
Deaf British suffragist
Kate Harvey
Deaf British suffragist
A Elizabeth Newell
1880s Boston activist
Adèle Clark
Adèle Clark was a founding member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, the chair of the Virginia League of Women Voters (1921–1925, 1929–1944), a New Deal–era field worker, and an accomplished artist and arts advocate.
Ailsa O’Connor
Ailsa O’Connor linked her art to society, both the themes she developed in her art and in the essays she wrote to explain the role of art in society.