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• Seton - Wright

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Abbott - Crandell

• Abbott, Grace, American social worker
• Abzug, Bella, American politician
• Addams, Jane, American social worker
• Ali, Ayaan Hirsi , writer, activist, critic of the treatment of women in Islam
• Anthony, Susan Brownell, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement
• Baker, Ella, civil rights activist sociologist
• Barton, Clara, American humanitarian, organizer of the American Red Cross
• Beauvoir, Simone de, French author
• Beecher, Catharine Esther, American educator
• Bell, Theresa Hayward, American Indian activist
• Besant, Annie, English social reformer and theosophist
• Bethune, Mary McLeod, American educator
• Bissell, Emily, American social worker
• Blackwell, Alice Stone, American feminist
• Blackwell, Elizabeth, American physician and reformer
• Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, American reformer
• Boggs, Grace Lee, American activist
• Booth, Evangeline Cory, General of the Salvation Army
• Bradwell, Myra, American lawyer, activist
• Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston, American pioneer social worker, educator, and author
• Brent, Margaret, early American feminist
• Bridgman, Laura, first blind deaf-mute to be successfully educated
• Cadbury, Dame Elizabeth, English social worker and philanthropist
• Carpenter, Mary, English educator and reformer
• Shadd Cary, Mary Ann, American woman-suffrage leader
• Catt, Carrie Chapman, American suffragist and peace advocate
• Chapman, Maria Weston, American abolitionist
• Chavez-Thompson, Linda, American labor leader
• Child, Lydia Maria , American author and abolitionist
• Crandell, Prudence, American educator and abolitionist
• Crenshaw, Anne Clay, American women's voting advocate

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• La Flesche - Sanger |
• Seton - Wright

Davies - King

• Davies, Emily (Sarah Emily Davies), British feminist, co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge
• Davis, Angela, American political activist, author
• Davis, Paulina Wright, American lecturer and suffragist
• Dee, Ruby, actor, writer, activist
• Deraismes, Maria, French feminist
• Dix, Dorothea Lynde, American social reformer, pioneer in the movement for specialized treatment of the insane
• Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, pioneering conservationist
• Duchesne, Rose Philippine, French educator in the United States
• Ebadi, Shirin , lawyer, activist, Nobel laureate
• Eddy, Mary Baker, founder, Christian Science Church
• Edelman, Marian Wright, American lawyer, civil rights activist, children's advocate
• Evers-Williams, Myrlie, American civil rights leader
• Fonda, Jane, American actor, activist
• Ford, Betty, former First Lady of the United States, humanitarian
• Foster, Abigail Kelley, American abolitionist and advocate of women's rights
• Friedan, Betty Naomi, American social reformer and feminist
• Fry, Elizabeth (Gurney), English prison reformer and philanthropist
• Fuller, Margaret, American writer and lecturer and feminist
• Gage, Matilda Joslyn, American woman suffrage leader
• Gbowee, Leymah, Liberian activist
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, American feminist and reformer
• Gittings, Barbara, gay rights activist
• Goldman, Emma, American anarchist
• Greer, Germaine, Australian author
• Grimké, Angelina Emily, American abolitionist and advocate of woman's rights
• Grimké, Sarah Moore, American abolitionist and advocate of woman's rights
• Hamer, Fannie Lou (Townsend), American civil rights activist
• Hamilton, Alice, American physician and educator
• Harper, Ida Husted, American woman suffragist
• Height, Dorothy, activist
• Howe, Julia Ward, American labor leader
• Huerta, Dolores, American author and social reformer
• Idar, Jovita, American journalist and political activist
• Jackson, Helen (Fiske) Hunt, American writer - chronicled injustice to Native Americans Native American
• Jagger, Bianca, activist
• Jones, Mary Harris, American labor agitator, called Mother Jones
• Karman, Tawakkol, Yemeni activist
• Kelley, Florence, American social worker and reformer
• Keller, Helen Adams, American author and lecturer, advocate for the blind and other social causes
• King, Coretta Scott, American civil rights leader
• King, Yolanda, civil rights leader
• Kuhn, Maggie, activist

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• Davies - King |
• La Flesche - Sanger |
• Seton - Wright

La Flesche - Sanger

• La Flesche, Susette, reformer, writer, and lecturer
• Lathrop, Julia Clifford, American social worker and administrator
• Lease, Mary Elizabeth, American agrarian reformer and temperance advocate
• Loving, Mildred, activist
• Low, Juliette Gordon, founder of Girl scouts
• Ludington, Sybil, war heroine
• Maathai, Wangari, conservationist, Nobel laureate
• Millett, Kate, writer, political activist, artist
• Mills, Heather, activist, model
• Mott, Lucretia Coffin, American feminist and reformer
• Nation, Carry Moore, American temperance advocate
• O'Hair, Madalyn Murray, atheist, activist
• Pankhurst, Emmeline Goulden, British woman suffragist
• Parker, Francine, political activist
• Parks, Rosa Lee, American civil rights activist
• Paul, Alice, American activist
• Perkins, Frances, U.S. Secretary of Labor
• Rankin, Jeannette, American pacifist, suffragist and member of the 77th Congress
• Roosevelt, Eleanor (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt), American humanitarian
• Rothman, Lorraine, women's rights activist
• Sanger, Margaret (Higgins), American leader in the birth control movement

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Seton - Wright

• Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann, American Roman Catholic leader, usually called Mother Seton
• Shaw, Anna Howard, American woman-suffrage leader
• Sheehan, Cindy, activist
• Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy, philanthropist, mental health activist
• Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury, American social worker
• Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson, political leader, Liberian activist
• Spencer, Anna Garlin, American educator, feminist, and Unitarian minister
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, American reformer, a leader of the woman suffrage movement
• Steinem, Gloria, American journalist and feminist
• Stone, Lucy, reformer and leader in the woman's rights movement
• Szold, Henrietta, American Zionist leader
• Tarbell, Ida Minerva, American author and muckraker
• Terrell, Mary Eliza Church, American civil rights and women's rights activist
• Thomas, Martha Carey, American educator and feminist
• Truth, Sojourner, American abolitionist, a freed slave
• Tubman, Harriet, American abolitionist
• Valentine, Lila Meade, American women's rights, public health, and education activist
• Wald, Lillian D., American social worker and pioneer in public health nursing
• Wattleton, Faye, American activist
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., American journalist and activist
• Willard, Emma, American educator, pioneer in woman's education
• Willard, Frances Elizabeth, American temperance leader and reformer
• Williams, Betty, Northern Irish peace activist
• Williams, Jody, American activist
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, English author and feminist
• Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin), American radical and feminist
• Woods, Harriet, U.S. politician, feminist leader
• Wright, Frances, Scottish-American reformer

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