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.
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Lucy Burns
American suffragist
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.
Zhangsun
Esteemed Chinese empress who dedicated her life to serving as a stabilizing force and wise advisor within the imperial court.
Lucy Parsons
Prominent African-American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist
Kathleen Behan
Irish republican