Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková was a Moravian teacher, editor and women’s rights activist.
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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Thérèse de Dillmont
In 1884 needleworker Thérèse de Dillmont left the embroidery school that she had started with her sister Franziska and moved to France, where she wrote her Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886).
Teréz Karacs
Teréz Karacs was a Hungarian writer, educator, memoirist and women’s rights activist.
Zelia N. Breaux
Zelia N. Breaux was an American music teacher and musician who played the trumpet, violin and piano who organized the first music department at Oklahoma’s Langston University, as well as the school’s first orchestra.
Kartini
Kartini was an Indonesian national hero, a pioneer in the area of education for girls and women’s rights for Indonesians.
Astrid Gøssel
Astrid Gøssel was a music educator who worked for many years as a movement educator.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters.
Amabel Anderson Arnold
Amabel Anderson Arnold LL.M. was an American lawyer and law professor who received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period.
Laura Wentworth Fowler
“No woman is better known in Boston’s musical and club circles than Laura Wentworth Fowler.”