Rhodessa Jones
Using playwriting, acting, and directing, she has created her own brand of social work designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV.
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Lena Morrow Lewis
Alaska’s male-dominated government passed women’s suffrage, but female leaders organized and lobbied to make voting rights a reality. Lena Morrow Lewis traveled around Alaska in the 1910s and spoke to large audiences in Fairbanks, Valdez, and Juneau about voting rights and other social reform issues.
Lillian Ford Feickert
Lillian Ford Feickert was president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920.
Dr Susan Alberti
Australian businesswoman, philanthropist and sports advocate
Beatrice Faust
In 1972, Beatrice Faust was a founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in Australia.
Cornelia Foster Bradford
Cornelia Foster Bradford established the Whittier House, the first settlement house in New Jersey and a Jersey City social establishment, in 1894.
Florence Peshine Eagleton
New Jersey leader in the woman suffrage movement and an advocate for women’s higher education.
Harriet Lafetra
New Jersey suffragist
Frankye Adams-Johnson
African-American civil rights activist
Mae Mallory
Mae Mallory was a civil rights activist known for her support of armed self-defense and school integration. She was the founder of the “Harlem 9,” a group of nine Black mothers formed to protest the inferior conditions of schools in New York City during the 1950’s.