Isabel Flick
Tenacious campaigner who fought segregation in Australia
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Henriette W Johnson
Suffragist Henriette W. Johnson was elected president of the Woman’s Club of Orange, which was the first woman’s club in New Jersey when it was founded in 1872.
Source: http://www.njwomenshistory.org/discover/biographies/henriette-w-johnson/
Leonora Barry
Leonora Barry (1849-1923) was the first woman paid to be a labor investigator in the US.
Mina Caroline Van Winkle
Mina Van Winkle (1875-1932) of Newark organized the Equality League for Self-Supporting Women of New Jersey in 1908.
Mary Philbrook
Mary Philbrook (1872-1958) was the first woman admitted to the bar in New Jersey.
Margaret Bancroft
Margaret Bancroft (1854-1912) founded the Bancroft Training School for the multiply disabled in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Marietta Boggio Botto
Marietta “Maria” Boggio Botto (1870-1915) was an “outwork” silk worker, who hosted the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 at her home in Haledon, New Jersey.
Dr Mary Whiton Calkins
In 1905 she served as the first female President of the American Psychological Association and in 1908 was ranked twelfth on a 1908 list of the top 50 psychologists in the country. Calkins also served as President of the American Philosophical Association in 1918.
Jessie Street
In 1945, Jessie Street was the first Australian woman delegate to the United Nations.
Mamie Till-Mobley
“The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.”
—Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, at a NAACP rally in Cleveland, Ohio, September 18, 1955