Dr A Grace Lee Mims
Educator, a musician, and an advocate for African-American culture.
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Victoria Earle Matthews
A writer, activist, club woman, and social worker, Victoria Earle Matthews dedicated herself to community uplift, civil rights, and helping others.
Tiffany Sturdivant
Executive director of Appalshop arts center
Mary Hata Sadataki
A teacher at a Japanese-American WWII relocation camp, a founding member in 1965 of the Cleveland Japanese-American Foundation, and helped develop the Cleveland Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.
Katherine Mural
Ukrainian immigrant-rights activist, serving as secretary for 20 years of Cleveland Branch 358 of The Ukrainian National Association, a fraternal insurance organization, and president of Cleveland Branch 30 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America.
Louise Johnson Pridgeon
The first practicing African American woman lawyer in Cleveland, and was also active in welfare work and politics.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884-September 12, 1966) was a jurist whose career marked a series of firsts for women.
Paula Kassell
Paula Kassell (b.1917) founded and edited New Directions for Women in New Jersey, the first feminist publication in the country.
Louisa Maculloch
Louisa Maculloch (1785-1863) was the first director of the Morristown Female Charitable Society which was founded in 1830 in New Jersey to serve the poor.
Margaret Laird
Margaret Laird (1861-1978) of Essex County was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, and was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly.