Nellie Stone Johnson
Nellie Stone Johnson was an African American union and civil rights leader whose career spanned the class-conscious politics of the 1930s and the liberal reforms of the Minnesota DFL Party.
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Ruth A Myers
A persistent voice for Native children and their families, Myers focused on education policy as well as learning opportunities for Native students. She also produced curricula and resource materials that reflected Native American history and culture for all Minnesota learners.
Clara Ueland
Clara Ueland was a lifelong women’s rights activist and prominent Minnesotan suffragist.
Maria Sanford
One of the first female professors in the United States, Maria Sanford was an English professor at the University of Minnesota for nearly thirty years.
Pat Bellanger
Pat Bellanger was an Ojibwe activist and a cofounder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who spent over fifty years fighting for Indigenous rights on a national and local level.
Betty Connolly
Betty Connolly was a working class suffragist from Newton Highlands, Massachusetts who was affiliated with the National Woman’s Party.
Edith Ainge
Treasurer and National Council member for the National Woman’s Party
Emily DuBois Butterworth
American suffragist and sculptor
Jessica Cox Henderson
State Secretary of the National Woman’s Party for Massachusetts, Secretary of the Citizens’ National Sacco and Vanzetti Committee
Kate J Boeckh
National Women’s Party suffragist, aviator, inventor