Jennie E Precker
Lawyer Jennie E. Precker (1892-1981) founded the Susan B. Anthony Building and Loan Association, the nation’s first women’s bank, in Newark.
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Juliet Clannon Cushing
Juliet Clannon Cushing (1845-1935), an advocate of protective labor legislation for women and founded the Consumers’ League of New Jersey in 1900.
Paula Kassell
Paula Kassell (b.1917) founded and edited New Directions for Women in New Jersey, the first feminist publication in the country.
Louisa Maculloch
Louisa Maculloch (1785-1863) was the first director of the Morristown Female Charitable Society which was founded in 1830 in New Jersey to serve the poor.
Margaret Laird
Margaret Laird (1861-1978) of Essex County was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, and was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly.
Amy Ray
The Indigo Girls are a folk-rock duo from Atlanta known for their inventive blend of Appalachian, pop, and rock influences.
Emily Saliers
The Indigo Girls are a folk-rock duo from Atlanta known for their inventive blend of Appalachian, pop, and rock influences.
Dr Jill Ker Conway
Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.
Teri Rofkar
Teri Rofkar, known also by her Lingít clan name, Cháas’ koowú tláa was a master in the traditional ways of Raven’s Tail weaving and Spruce Root Basketry. She was also an accomplished educator who passed on these traditional Lingít weaving techniques to future generations so that the skills and art of the Lingít people would not be lost.
Sue Ko Lee
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.