Annie Kriegel
During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.
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Berty Albrecht
Berty Albrecht was passionate about family planning and better working conditions for women, and founded the feminist journal Le Problème Sexuel.
Annie Frasier Norton
Annie Frasier Norton (1893-1918), from East Boston, joined the Navy in WWI, serving at Portsmouth Naval Yard.
Florence Violet McKenzie
Australia’s first female electrical engineer, founder of a telegraphy school and initiator of the WRANS.
Lettice Curtis
Pioneering British commercial pilot and aeronautical engineer.
June Townsend Gentry
June Townsend Gentry (Yuchi/Choctaw) served in the US Coast Guard during World War II, one of the 800 Native American women to join the US military.
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Mildred Davenport
Trailblazing dancer and renowned dance instructor.
Frances Slanger
The first American nurse in the European Theater to be killed in combat during World War II.
Sonia Vagliano-Eloy
Women in the French Resistance: Sonia Vagliano-Eloy joined de Gaulle’s Free French and trained in London. After D-Day, she was sent to France with her female colleagues to oversee refugee camps. She worked with the survivors of Buchenwald.