Annie Lee Cooper
American civil rights activist
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April DeBoer
In 2012, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse filed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s ban that prevented same-sex couples like DeBoer and Rowse from jointly adopting their children.
Margaret Haughery
1800s Irish-American philanthropist
Margaret Hayes
Irish civil servant
Dr Lorna Verdun Sisely
Dr Lorna Sisely was only the second person in Australia to receive a fellowship for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS).
Dr Laila B Haglund
Laila Haglund was an archaeologist who played a significant role in the framing of legislative protection for Aboriginal sites in Australia.
Aurora M Ocampo
Mexican literary researcher and academic
Dolores Batista
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
Judith Ellen Foster
Suffragist, temperance activist and lawyer who founded the Woman’s National Republican Association in 1888, declaring that “woman is politics.”
Emily Newell Blair
American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.