Consuelo Hermosillo
Defendant in the Madrigal v. Quilligan civil rights class action lawsuit against the forced sterilization of Latina women
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Dr Audrey Forbes Manley
Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley was the first African American woman to achieve the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral).
Frankie Muse Freeman
Lesser known than some of the national civil rights leaders, she took her own protests to the American courtrooms, arguing against racial discrimination and “Jim Crow” laws and became the first woman on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Evelyn G Lowery
Evelyn Gibson Lowery has been both foot soldier and leader at pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian
Áine Hardiman
Dominican nun, community activist and anti-apartheid campaigner
Diane Nash
American civil rights activist
Addie L Wyatt
One of the US’s foremost labor union leaders, women’s rights advocate and civil rights activist.
Dr Barbara Lewis King
Bishop Barbara Lewis King, affectionately called Dr. Barbara, is the Founder/Minister of the Hillside Chapel and Truth Center, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2001, she became the first female to be enstooled as a Chief at Assin Nsuta, Ghana, West Africa.
Dr Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Massachusetts’ first woman Commissioner of Public Health, as well as its youngest, where she established the US’s first Violence Prevention Office at a state health department.