Ethel Lennox
Ethel Lennox drove the creation of Upham’s Corner Neighborhood Health Center and was a community health advocate across Boston.
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Jessie Daniel Ames
Suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped build the anti-lynching movement in the American South
Cecil Craig
Viscountess Craigavon and Irish unionist
Margaret Sunderland Cooper
American piritualist, animal rights activist and was Inspector of Cattle Transportation for the state of New Hampshire.
Stacey Park Milbern
Korean-American disability rights activist
Joséphine Marchand
Canadian journalist, writer, lecturer, and feminist activist
Larissa Behrendt
Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer
Mary Bluett
Teacher and trade unionist
Cornelia Walker Bailey
As a member of the last generation of African Americans born and educated on Sapelo Island, Cornelia Bailey became one of Georgia’s most vocal defenders of her homeland and its African American heritage.
Jean Childs Young
Jean Childs Young was the first lady of Atlanta during the mayoral terms of her husband, Andrew Young, in the 1980s and was known nationally and internationally as an educator and advocate for children’s rights.