Louie Bennett
Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and peace activist
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Margaret Gaj
Irish restaurateur, radical, and political activist
Ella Flagg Young
Young was the first woman president of the National Education Association, and also identified herself prominently with the woman’s suffrage movement.
Flora Annie Steel
English novelist who also wrote a popular history of India.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
American writer and educator
Helen Blackburn
Irish suffragist and writer
Helen Chenevix
Irish trade unionist, suffragist, and social campaigner
Jean Cochrane
Irish educator and activist for women’s education
Edith Kanakaʻole
Edith Kanaka’ole (also affectionately called “Aunty Edith”), a native Hawaiian composer, chanter and dancer, was a champion for the preservation of native Hawaiian culture and arts. Kanaka’ole lead the highly celebrated dance school, Hālau o Kekuhi, where her legacy as a Kumu Hula, or chief practitioner of traditional Hawaiian dance and culture, took flight.
Susan M Osborne
American philanthropist. At the age of nineteen, she founded the Home for Friendless Women and Girls in New York City, and later established a refuge shelter there.