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Rose Finkelstein Norwood
Indefatigable union activist and organizer.
Sarah Parker Remond
International anti-slavery lecturer and activist for African American and women’s suffrage. Later, she moved to Italy where she became a medical doctor.
Adelaide Johnson
American sculptor and suffragist
Dr Helen Cordelia Putnam
Co-founder of the American Child Health Association, organized to promote cleaner schools, better health care for children, and the teaching of health education with the involvement of parents in 1923. While serving as president of the American Academy of Medicine, she organized a conference that resulted in the establishment of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality.
Elizabeth Thatcher Kent
American suffragist and environmentalist
Helga Estby
Norwegian-American suffragist
Edna Brush Perkins
Social reformer, women’s rights activist, painter and poet
Joan Bielski
Bielski was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and of the NSW Women in Education group (1973-1994), a feminist organisation, whose slogan was Educate to Liberate.
Jeni Thornley
Australian documentary filmmaker