Jennie MacMichael
Canadian suffragist
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Idola Saint-John
A pioneer of women’s rights, Idola Saint-Jean founded in 1927 the Canadian Alliance for the Women’s Vote in Quebec.
Janetta Mary Ornsby
One of the seven founders of the Women’s Engineering Society in the UK
Elizabeth Ryan
Irish Loreto sister and pioneer of women’s higher education
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.