Minerva Kline Brooks
Ohio suffragist who also helped organize the precursor of the Cleveland Play House (1915), and introduced interpretive dance in both Cleveland and New York City.
Ohio suffragist who also helped organize the precursor of the Cleveland Play House (1915), and introduced interpretive dance in both Cleveland and New York City.
Spending seven decades at the center of the Boston suffrage movement, Judith Winsor Smith proudly claimed, “I believed in suffrage before there was such a word in the dictionary.”
She organized 1,000 church and labor union members on a trip to Washington, D.C., to march in support of the Civil Rights Act.
Director of Denison House, a woman-run settlement house that occupied three buildings In Boston for fifty years
Indefatigable activist for social and economic justice
Caroline Callender was one of the founders of Fields Corner Industrial School and was president of the board for over twenty-five years, handling funding, staffing and the planning of programs.
Ethel Lennox drove the creation of Upham’s Corner Neighborhood Health Center and was a community health advocate across Boston.
Suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped build the anti-lynching movement in the American South
Viscountess Craigavon and Irish unionist
American piritualist, animal rights activist and was Inspector of Cattle Transportation for the state of New Hampshire.