Diane Nash
American civil rights activist
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Addie L Wyatt
One of the US’s foremost labor union leaders, women’s rights advocate and civil rights activist.
Dr Barbara Lewis King
Bishop Barbara Lewis King, affectionately called Dr. Barbara, is the Founder/Minister of the Hillside Chapel and Truth Center, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2001, she became the first female to be enstooled as a Chief at Assin Nsuta, Ghana, West Africa.
Dr Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Massachusetts’ first woman Commissioner of Public Health, as well as its youngest, where she established the US’s first Violence Prevention Office at a state health department.
Luz Maria Cardoza-Fonseca
Nicaraguan immigrant who fought for – and won – asylum rights
Verneda Rodríguez Mclean
WWII military pilot active in the fight for veteran status for the WASPs and the first WASP to be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
Dr Barbara Barlow
In 1988, Dr. Barbara Barlow founded the Injury Free Coalition for Kids.
Alice Mary Bush
Important figure in the development of paediatrics in New Zealand
Ka‘oana‘eha
Hawaiian royal
Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund and an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life.