Carol June Young Specht was a Past President of the local League of Women Voters, President of Women Against Rape (WAR), and co-founder of the Coles County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She advocated with a passion for victims of rape and domestic violence during the mid-twentieth century.
Irish noblewoman and sea captain
American dancer and teacher
Irish rock climber and mountain guide
Lader of the militant wing of the English suffrage movement.
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
Moroccan pirate and ruler of Tetouan.
Educator and civil rights activist Dr Betty Shabazz was the wife, and later widow, of Malcolm X.
Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567
Founder of the famous “Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition” of wax figures in London.