Laura Mae Corrigan
Socialite who worked for French soldiers and refugees during WWII, organizing the aid group of French women known as La Bien Venue.
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Caroline M Severance
1800s feminist activist in Cleveland, known as America’s first clubwoman
Hannah Maria Conant Tracy Cutler
President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association and the American Women’s Suffrage Association, as well as an abolitionist and a leader of the temperance movement in Ohio
Marie Remington Wing
American lawyer, feminist, and reformer
Mary Belle Grossman
The first woman municipal judge in the U.S.
Margaret N Kovell
20th century American composer and poet
Belle Sherwin
American reform activist and a suffragist who led the national League of Women Voters during 1924-1934.
María Teresa Mirabal
The story of the Mirabal sisters is one of three martyrs, and the survivor who ensured they would not be forgotten.
Sonia Revid
Sonia Revid created public health ballet at the height of ‘dance fever’
Saint Walatta Petros
1600s Ethiopian saint Walatta Petros was a revered religious leader who was a driving force preventing the Catholic colonization of her country and her church.