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Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945
Emma Goldman
Russian-born anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer
Mary Hanford Ford
American lecturer, author, art, literature critic and suffragette
Louisine Havemeyer
American art collector
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert
Laura Cornelius Kellogg
Native American activist
Jane Addams
American activist, social worker and author
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist, educator and nurse
Zitkala-Sa
Yankton Dakota writer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American activist, journalist and writer
Louise Bryant
American activist and journalist
Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and civil rights activist
Anna Louise Strong
American journalist
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate
Marion Hamilton Carter
American writer
Fanny Bullock Workman
American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
American-born British politician; first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (from 1919 to 1945)
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator and civil rights leader
Alice Paul
American suffragette
Lucy Burns
American suffragist
Alva Belmont
American suffragette and socialite
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American politician
Helen Keller
U.S. author and political activist for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and antimilitarism; the 1st deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor's degree
Pearl S. Buck
American writer
Florence Kelley
American activist
Nellie Bly
American journalist
Jeannette Rankin
American congresswoman for Montana
Ada L. James
American suffragist
Angelina Weld Grimké
American writer
Lila Meade Valentine
American suffragist
Fanny Fligelman Brin
Romanian American activist
Adah M. McMahan
American doctor and suffragist
Ruth Hanna McCormick
American politician
Mary Carson Breckinridge
American nurse
Septima Poinsette Clark
American activist
Rose Pastor Stokes
American social activist, later Communist; writer and editor
Florence Jaffray Hurst
American socialite, social activist, and diplomat
Maymie de Mena
American-born activist who became one of the highest-ranking officers in UNIA
Leonora O'Reilly
American activist