Bessie Starkman
Polish-Canadian organized crime boss
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Dora Sion Amir
20th century Greek immigrant to the U.S.
Sara Little Turnbull
Accomplished American product designer, design innovator, and educator. She advised corporate America on product design for more than six decades and has been described as “corporate America’s secret weapon.”
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember
US Civil War Confederate nurse who eventually ran the world’s largest hospital
Jeanette Carlson
South African educator and anti-apartheid activist
Hilary Mutch
South African writer and anti-apartheid activist
Hilda Bernstein
British-South African author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women’s rights
Gill Marcus
South African politician, professor and governor of the Reserve Bank (2009-2014).
Helen Suzman
South African human rights activist
Pauline Podbrey
South African Communist activist