Clara Lemlich Shavelson
Clara Lemlich Shavelson is known primarily for her part in the 1909 garment workers strike in New York City, often referred to as the Uprising of 20,000.
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Anita Pollitzer
American suffragist
Ruthann Knudson
Archeologist who specialized in Paleoindian studies.
Sallie Wyatt Stewart
African American educator, real estate broker, civil rights activist, and community leader based in Evansville, Indiana.
Carrie Williams Qisiliaq Uhl
Carrie was an important part of daily life in Sisualik, passing on on traditions to all who had an interest in learning, including teaching skin sewing, seal processing, and cooking.
Grace Lee Boggs
Chinese American civil rights and labor activist whose support for causes such as the Black Power movement, feminism, and the environment spanned over 70 years.
Myrlie Evers–Williams
Civil rights activist
Elizabeth Fisher Read
Scholar and one of Eleanor Roosevelt’s earliest female political and feminist mentors
Sue Kunitomi Embrey
Sue Kunitomi Embrey understood the need to recognize and protect places that are powerful parts of our national memory and used her civic voice to advocate for those places.
Alice Nugent
Like her sister Georgia, Alice Nugent played an active role in Black women’s clubs and other civic organizations in Kentucky. Both Alice and Georgia were founding members of Louisville’s Women’s Improvement Club (WIC).