Helen Kirkpatrick Watts
Deaf British suffragist
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Kate Harvey
Deaf British suffragist
Hsieh Hsüeh-hung
Champion of Taiwanese self-determination
Mavis Staples
Powerful gospel and rhythm and blues singer
A Elizabeth Newell
1880s Boston activist
Abby Hopper Gibbons
1800s American philanthropist
Kate Cocks
Australian policewoman who fought crime and ran a home for babies – but was no saint
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Mary Ellen Pleasant was perhaps the most powerful Black woman in Gold Rush-era San Francisco.
Mary Tape
In 1884, she tried to enroll her eight-year-old daughter Mamie at a white public school in San Francisco. When school authorities turned Mamie away because of her Chinese ancestry, Mary and her husband sued the Board of Education. The lawsuit became a landmark civil rights case for public school desegregation.
Yuri Kochiyama
Japanese American activist who dedicated her life to the pursuit of social justice, not only for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, but all communities of color.