Sister Nivedita
Irish educator, writer, and political activist in India
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Margaret Phelan
20th century Irish local historian
Margaret Moore
1700s and 1800s Countess Mount Cashell and writer
Lois Jenson
Plaintiff in the U.S.’s first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit
Pat Kosmach
Lead plaintiff of the U.S.’s first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Considered the first Mexican-American novelist, and a precursor to the Chicano/a movement
Lucretia del Valle Grady
Mexican-American suffragist and actor
Aurora Lucero-White Lea
Latina U.S. suffragist and folklorist
Lenora Fulani
In 1988 Fulani became the first woman and first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. She won 225,000 votes, or 0.2% of the November 1988 total.
Gwendolyn Mink
Gwendolyn Mink is an historical political scientist who has written about racism & nativism in US labor’s political formations at the turn of the 20th century; women & gender in 20th century US social policy history; and gender, race, and low income motherhood in the contemporary politics of poverty policy.