Sue Ko Lee was a Chinese American garment worker and labor organizer with the Chinese Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Association. In 1938, she participated in a successful 15-week strike against the National Dollar Stores garment factory. At the time, it was the longest strike in the history of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Lee went on to become a leader in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) in California.
She and other workers staged the first Puerto Rican workers strike in New Jersey.
Tenacious campaigner who fought segregation in Australia
Suffragist Henriette W. Johnson was elected president of the Woman’s Club of Orange, which was the first woman’s club in New Jersey when it was founded in 1872.
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Mary Philbrook (1872-1958) was the first woman admitted to the bar in New Jersey.
Margaret Bancroft (1854-1912) founded the Bancroft Training School for the multiply disabled in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Marietta “Maria” Boggio Botto (1870-1915) was an “outwork” silk worker, who hosted the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 at her home in Haledon, New Jersey.
In 1905 she served as the first female President of the American Psychological Association and in 1908 was ranked twelfth on a 1908 list of the top 50 psychologists in the country. Calkins also served as President of the American Philosophical Association in 1918.
In 1945, Jessie Street was the first Australian woman delegate to the United Nations.
Leonora Barry (1849-1923) was the first woman paid to be a labor investigator in the US.