Elizabeth Ryan
Irish Loreto sister and pioneer of women’s higher education
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Benita Galeana
Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.
Marie-Anne Laporte
Candian labour activist
Laura Elizabeth McCully
1900s Canadian feminist, poet, journalist, and independent woman
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Canadian feminist, social reformer, lecturer, educator and author
Bess Bolden Walcott
American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist who helped establish the historical significance of the Tuskegee University.
Eleanor Schetlin
Schetlin had a forty-two year career in education and was Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Services at the Health Sciences Center, S.U.N.Y. from 1971 to 1985.
Elisabeth Freeman
British-American women’s rights, civil rights and labor rights activist
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
One of five women who planned the women’s right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, she presided over numerous women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions.
Mary Ruthsdotter
American women’s rights activist