Jessie Redmon Fauset
As the literary editor of The Crisis (1919–1926) she introduced many Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, to the public, in addition to being a writer herself.
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Juanita Jackson Mitchell
The NAACP’s first national youth director
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson
NAACP field organizer from 1921 to 1924, YMCA worker and writer
Margaret Bush Wilson
In 1958 she became president of the NAACP St. Louis Branch, and in 1962 headed the State Conference. Elected to the NAACP Board in 1963, she became the first black woman to chair it in 1975.
Mary Walsh Lee
Leader in the South Australian suffrage movement and a worker for working women.
Adeline Davis
Canadian temperance reformer and author
Helena Clarke
Australian Indigenous rights activist
Maria Grant
Canadian social reformer, suffragist, school trustee, secretary, probation officer, and Unity movement preacher
Katherine Morey
Suffragist, pacifist, leader of the National Woman’s Party in Massachusettsroughout the United States.
Agnes H Morey
Suffragist and leader of the National Woman’s Party in Massachusetts