Susannah Maxwell
Prominent Black citizen of Richmond Hill, Ontario in the 1800s and early 1900s
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Catherine Broshears Maynard
Catherine Simmons Broshears Maynard was an energetic Seattle pioneer.
Alice Barry
1st countess of Barrymore in 1600s Ireland
Ann Lovett
Irish teen whose death sparked a national outcry, highlighting the treatment of teenage and unmarried mothers, as well as legal restrictions on contraception and the failings of the state in the provision of sex education
Dora Tamana
South African anti-apartheid activist
Sarah Baartman
Khoikhoi woman who was kidnapped, sold into slavery and exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus
Ann Glover
The last person executed in Boston as a witch
Bisho Jarsa
Bisho was one of a group of Ethiopian slaves freed by a British warship in 1888 off the coast of Yemen, then taken round the African coast and placed in the care of missionaries in South Africa.
Anna De Koningh
Born into slavery, Anna De Koningh became a socialite in South Africa.
Celiast Smith
The life of Celiast Smith, a Clatsop woman, embodies an often-overlooked truth about the nineteenth-century Pacific West: the important role women’s movement played in claiming and making homes.