Frances Freeborn Pauley
Frances Pauley, social activist and political organizer, devoted her life to the battle against prejudice and discrimination in the southern US.
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Emily Barnelia Woodward
Emily Woodward was a prominent female journalist in the early twentieth-century Southern US who became an outspoken advocate of liberal causes.
Helen A Whiting
Whiting worked hard to promote African American education and to improve classroom conditions in 1930s and ’40s Georgia (US state).
Mary Latimer McLendon
Mary Latimer McLendon, along with her older sister Rebecca Latimer Felton, was a leader in the prohibition and woman suffrage movements in Georgia (US state).
Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.
Leila Denmark
Leila Denmark was the oldest practicing pediatrician in the United States when she retired in 2001 at the age of 103. In seventy years of practice, Denmark rarely charged patients more than ten dollars for an office consultation, and it was not unusual for her to spend an hour counseling a new mother.
Julia Flisch
Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Janisse Ray
Janisse Ray, an environmental activist and poet, is the award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a highly praised book that combines elements of ecology and autobiography into a multifaceted work.
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Jane Yarn
Jane Hurt Yarn was a conservationist and environmentalist who single-handedly helped save thousands of acres of wild land in Georgia (US state) and around the nation.