Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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Selina Seixas Solomons
Selina Seixas Solomons dedicated her life to women’s suffrage and was a key player in California granting women the right to vote in 1911.
Teréz Karacs
Teréz Karacs was a Hungarian writer, educator, memoirist and women’s rights activist.
Yu Gwansun
An important figure in organising the March 1st Movement against the Japanese colonial rule in Korea, Yu Gwansun became a symbol of her country’s fight for independence through peaceful protest.
Kartini
Kartini was an Indonesian national hero, a pioneer in the area of education for girls and women’s rights for Indonesians.
Andrea Villarreal
Andrea Villarreal was a teacher, poet, feminist, labor organizer, and revolutionary.
Lula Parrish
Lula Parrish risked her job and her life by marching for civil rights with more than 100 other African-American teachers in the Selma Teachers March on January 22 1965.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.
Myra Davis Hemmings
Delta Sigma Theta, a service sorority for black women, was founded at Howard University in Washington, DC in 1912, with Myra Davis Hemmings of San Antonio elected as its first president.
Lakshmi Puri
Lakshmi Puri is a former Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations and the former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.