Lucy Johnson Barbour
Lucy Johnson Barbour was an American women’s leader and Whig Party activist.
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Pauline Adams
Irish-born American suffrage activist
Oney Judge
Oney Judge was the enslaved personal attendant of Martha Custis Washington when she ran away from the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796.
Odessa Pittard Bailey
Odessa Pittard Bailey was a civic leader in western Virginia.
Angela Russell
Irish physician and social reformer
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton was a civic leader who worked toward a more inclusive democracy in Roanoke, Virginia.
Katherine Wilson
Irish republican, civil servant, and teacher
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms.
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon was a suffrage activist who worked for change at every level: as a grassroots organizer, a state politics watchdog, and a researcher at a federal agency.
Evelyn Thomas Butts
Evelyn Thomas Butts was a civil rights activist and Democratic Party leader from Norfolk who helped overturn Virginia’s poll tax.