Emmeline Pankhurst
Lader of the militant wing of the English suffrage movement.
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Ellen Elizabeth Ferner
As a member of the Auckland Community Welfare Council when it formed in mid 1924, Ferner was involved in providing important support for the passage of the Child Welfare Act in 1925. This experience, and her wider work on children’s issues, culminated in her appointment as one of the first three associate members of the Children’s Court in 1926.
Albion Fellows Bacon
American reformer who secured for Indiana a tenement-house law
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Alva Belmont
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
Sara Yorke Stevenson
American archaeologist; first woman to receive a Sc.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
American suffragist and civil rights activist
Carrie Burnham Kilgore
The first woman admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania
Loretta Ross
Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Most notably, she is a cofounder of SisterSong and Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, served as a previous Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, and is one of twelve women credited with coining the phrase and framework “reproductive justice.”
Ophelia Settle Egypt
Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. However, she was also critical in preserving the histories of formerly enslaved African Americans in the early twentieth century, fighting against preventable ailments in Black communities across the country, and for authoring a children’s book.