Emily Newell Blair
American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.
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Marlo Thomas
American actress
Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson was a fifth-generation Mormon who became active in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Johnson co-founded Mormons for ERA. Her activism led to her excommunication from the LDS Church and influenced her decision to run for President.
Margaret Pender
Irish poet, novelist and political activist
Sister Nivedita
Irish educator, writer, and political activist in India
Margaret Phelan
20th century Irish local historian
Margaret Moore
1700s and 1800s Countess Mount Cashell and writer
Lois Jenson
Plaintiff in the U.S.’s first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit
Pat Kosmach
Lead plaintiff of the U.S.’s first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Considered the first Mexican-American novelist, and a precursor to the Chicano/a movement