Trinidad Tecson
Philippine revolutionary who joined the revolutionary nationalist army Katipunan in 1895 to fight for her country’s independence from Spanish colonizers.
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Harriet Nahanee
Pacheedaht activist Harriet Nahanee made headlines in 2006 when the septuagenarian was arrested by Vancouver police protesting a highway expansion that would damage Eagleridge Bluffs land and ecosystems, in preparation for the 2010 Olympics.
Hattie Canty
In 1990, Hattie Canty was elected the first African American, first woman, and first guest room attendant to be president of the Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226, a role in which she improved conditions for tens of thousands of workers.
Jayne Rowse
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.
Laurel Hester
A New Jersey police lieutenant, Hester died in 2006 at age 49 after a prolonged battle with lung cancer. At the same time, she had been battling another force: the Ocean County freeholders, who held Hester’s pension in their hands, and were refusing to allow her domestic partner, Stacie Andree, to receive those benefits when Hester inevitably succumbed to her cancer.
Lillian Moyer
Tahltan elder Lillian Moyer was 67 when she was arrested in 2006 in northern British Columbia and a First Nations blockade that had been preventing a mining company from exploring the Todagin Plateau for copper and gold.
Mary Seacole
1800s Jamaican nurse and businesswoman
Melanie George
American dance educator, choreographer, dramaturg, and scholar, and an activist working to deconstruct the hierarchies of dance.
Edith Windsor
Edie Windsor was in her 80s when she sued the U.S. government. Her wife, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The following year, Windsor received a $363,000 tax bill—estate taxes that, had the government recognized their marriage, would have been nonexistent.
Rita Cetina y Gutierrez
Mexican educator, writer and feminist Rita Cetina y Gutierrez advocated for women’s education in Mérida, Yucatán.