Bertha Porush
German-Australian Jewish community leader
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Andrea Durbach
South African-Australian human rights advocate
Alice Meynell
Late-Victorian poet, journalist, and art critic.
Vida Milholland
American suffragist and singer
Miriam Fink
Polish-Australian activist
Nennie Harken
Australian educator, pay equality activist and trade unionist
Emma Pitcher
Indiana dunes environmental activist
Lillian Walker
Lillian Walker was an African American civil rights activist in Washington state.
Dixy Lee Ray
Marine biologist, professor at the University of Washington, and director of Seattle’s Pacific Science Center. Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), from 1973 to 1975. First woman elected governor of Washington.
Dr Melnea Agnes Jones Cass
As a suffragist, clubwoman, and activist, Cass advocated for Boston’s most disadvantaged inhabitants.