Phoebe Cary
American poet and women’s rights activist
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Alice Allison Dunnigan
In 1961, President Kennedy acknowledged Alice Dunnigan as the first African American White House correspondent after two years of being ignored. She became the first Black woman in the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries.
Dr Kate Waller Barrett
American physician, humanitarian, and social reformer
Abigail Goodrich Whittlesey
American philanthropist who supported mothers
Kate Clark
New Zealand community activist, artist and writer
Helen Black
New Zealand mayor
Kay O’Riordan
Irish communist
Wharetutu Anne Newton
Maori Ngāi Tahu founding mother
Bessie Spencer
New Zealand school principal, orchardist, community leader
Lucy Fitzgerald
1800s Irish political radical