Clara Breed
Clara Estelle Breed was a children’s librarian in the San Diego Public Library system who supported the Japanese American community during World War II.
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Joan Z Bernstein
Lawyer and chairperson of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC).
Harriet E Bishop
Harriet Bishop, best known as the founder of St. Paul’s first public and Sunday schools, was also a social reformer, land agent, and writer.
Winona Flett
Canadian suffragist and social reformer
Ellen Craft
William and Ellen Craft were an enslaved couple from Macon who gained celebrity after a daring, novel, and very public escape in December 1848.
Dora Lewis
Chairman of National Women’s Party of Pennsylvania, Member of NWP Executive Committee
Sarah Tarleton Colvin
American nurse, author and National Women’s Party president
Fannie Jean Lyne Black
American golfer and suffragist
Eliza Douglas Keith
American educator, author, journalist, social reformer and suffragist
May Benton Treat Morrison
American suffragist known for her civic and philanthropic activities.