Elisabeth Freeman
British-American women’s rights, civil rights and labor rights activist
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Elna Grahn
Grahn commanded the 2525th Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit during World War II and was the first woman to serve on a United States Army General Court Martial.
Evelyn Krebsbach
Activist in North Dakota for the rights of the developmentally disabled
Mary Lindsay Elmendorf
Nobel Peace Prize recipient of group award British and American Quakers for work during and after World War II
Dr Ethel Percy Andrus
Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the prize with her that year.
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
One of five women who planned the women’s right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, she presided over numerous women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions.
Mary Ruthsdotter
American women’s rights activist
Anna Cope Hartshorne
Co-founder of Tsuda College for women in Tokyo, Japan in 1900
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
An early feminist and active member of the Women’s Suffrage Party, Leta Stetter Hollingworth is best known for her landmark contributions to the psychology of women and to education of the gifted, the latter culminating in two books, Gifted Children (1926) and Children Above IQ 180 (1942).