Wilma Young
Wilma Young was an Australian World War II veteran, providing decades of community work with the RSL and war veterans.
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Sarah Clarke
20th century Irish nun and civil rights campaigner
Jean Harslett
Australian historian, naturalist and environmentalist
Doris Bardsley
Doris Bardsley was a nurse and midwife who worked for nearly 40 years in the Queensland public service in Australia.
Keran Howe
It was a car accident in 1972 that led Keran Howe towards her lifelong dedication to women’s health and advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities, particularly women.
Ana Rufatt-Ruiz
Chilean-Australian community advocate who works tirelessly to support public housing residents.
Frances Freeborn Pauley
Frances Pauley, social activist and political organizer, devoted her life to the battle against prejudice and discrimination in the southern US.
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).