MaVynee Betsch
Environmental activist who worked to preserve and protect a historically African-American beach on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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Dr Me-Iung Ting
Dr. Me-Iung Ting worked tirelessly to improve medical care for women, children, and refugees, even when it put her at great personal risk.
Mestaa’ėhehe
Born during a time of increasingly strained relationships between Native Americans and white colonizers, Owl Woman is credited with nourishing peace on the Colorado plains.
Katharine Wright
Often ignored in the histories, the third Wright sibling was vital to her brothers’ success
“A, D, and G”
Between 1996 and 1997, three transgender women – known in in court records as A, D and G to protect their identities – were denied gender reassignment surgery by the North West Lancashire Health Authority in England. In 1999, the women brought a legal suit against the Health Authority.
Dr Matilda Chaplin Ayrton
1800s British doctor
Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett
Suffragist and member of the Hawaiian royal family
Kimiko Kaye Tambara
Journalist and activist who documented the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII
Barbara Ann Sutteer
Sutteer worked for the Federal Aviation Administration and the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Alaska for 17 years before being appointed superintendent of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, the first woman and first Native American to serve in that position.
Ada Deer
Ada Deer laid the foundation for the successes of many modern American women through her political trailblazing and activism.