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Rita Cetina y Gutierrez

Mexican educator, writer and feminist Rita Cetina y Gutierrez advocated for women’s education in Mérida, Yucatán.

Frances O’Brien

1800s Irish poet and novelist

Aurora M Ocampo

Mexican literary researcher and academic

Dolores Batista

Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.

Emily Newell Blair

American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.

Sonia Johnson was a fifth-generation Mormon who became active in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Johnson co-founded Mormons for ERA. Her activism led to her excommunication from the LDS Church and influenced her decision to run for President.