Cecilia Cruz Bamba
Chamorro woman orphaned at the age of nine during the Japanese attacks on Guam in 1941. Motivated by the grandmother who raised her, Bamba became a senator, businesswoman, and community leader.
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Florence Luscomb
Participating in women’s rights, civil rights, labor, and peace movements throughout the 1900s, Florence Luscomb embodied what it means to be an activist.
Ohtowaˀkéhson
Head woman of the turtle clan of the Mohawks in the 1700s and 1800s
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Lucy Burns
American suffragist
Unita Zelma Blackwell
Born to sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, Blackwell rose from humble beginnings to become one of many unsung Black female heroines of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Hilary Boyle
Irish journalist, broadcaster, and activist
Te Puea Hērangi
Waikato woman of mana, Kīngitanga leader
Rhoda Bloodworth
New Zealand labour activist, community worker and feminist
Saint Aelia Eudocia
Consort of the Emperor Theodosius II of Byzantium, poet, philanthropist.