Mary Morton Kehew
Mary Morton Kehew led the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union from 1892 until her death in 1919.
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Mary Kenney O’Sullivan
Suffragist and one of the principal founders of the National Women’s Trade Union League in 1903.
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Jennie Loitman Barron
The first full time woman judge in Massachusetts and the first woman judge on the Massachusetts Superior Court
Maria Weston Chapman
A founder of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
Ednah Dow Cheney
American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
Sophie de Condorcet
French intellectual and advocate for the downtrodden
Rose Finkelstein Norwood
Indefatigable union activist and organizer.
Missouri T B Hanna
The “Mother of Journalism” in Washington.
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.