A dedicated socialist, she gave up life as a baroness to work for the future she believed in. An advocate for women’s rights from a young age, she was never afraid to point out that even the socialists generally placed men’s needs above women’s, if they even considered women at all.
Joanna Cohan Scherer worked in the Smithsonian Institution’s anthropology archives for decades, starting in 1966.
In 1979, Helen B. Feeney sued the Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts due to employment discrimination.
Estonian-American curriculum reformer
English doctor Janet Mary Campbell was forced to resign from her civil service job in 1934 when she married, after having worked with departments ranging from the Board of Education (their first full-time woman medical officer), the War Cabinet during World War I and the Ministry of Health.
Oskar Schindler is internationally renowned for his work saving 1,300 Jews during World War II, not least because of the Oscar-winning 1993 film Schindler’s List. But while the film depicted his wife Emilie as a supporting character, she was just as involved as he was.
Argentine activist and First Lady
Frances Grimes was an artist best known for her marble portrait busts and delicate low relief sculptures.
Inventor of the board game Monopoly
Sarah Keys, a young, Black soldier serving at Fort Dix, New Jersey, took a stand against racial injustice changed interstate transportation in 1952.