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Elizabeth Furse

Born in the colonial British Empire, Elizabeth Furse became an anti-apartheid activist, an advocate for migrant farm workers and Native Americans, and founder of a peace institute.

Ella Grasso

Connecticut Representative Ella Grasso’s brief House career bridged two decades of service in state government and two trailblazing terms as the state’s governor.

Norah Elam

Irish suffragist and fascist

Irene Langhorne Gibson chaired the Child Planning and Adoption Committee of New York’s State Charities Association for twenty-five years. She founded the New York branch of the Southern Women’s Educational Alliance, was a member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and helped found and was a director of the Protestant Big Sisters, on whose board she served for many years.