Notable Female Reformers and Activists
Abbott - Crandell
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Abbott, Grace, American social worker
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Abzug, Bella, American politician
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Addams, Jane, American social worker
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Anthony, Susan Brownell, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement
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Baker, Ella, civil rights activist sociologist
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Barton, Clara, American humanitarian, organizer of the American Red Cross
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Beauvoir, Simone de, French author
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Beecher, Catharine Esther, American educator
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Bell, Theresa Hayward, American Indian activist
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Besant, Annie, English social reformer and theosophist
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Bethune, Mary McLeod, American educator
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Blackwell, Alice Stone, American feminist
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Blackwell, Elizabeth, American physician and reformer
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Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, American reformer
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Boggs, Grace Lee, American activist
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Booth, Evangeline Cory, General of the Salvation Army
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Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston, American pioneer social worker, educator, and author
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Brent, Margaret, early American feminist
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Bridgman, Laura, first blind deaf-mute to be successfully educated
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Cadbury, Dame Elizabeth, English social worker and philanthropist
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Carpenter, Mary, English educator and reformer
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Catt, Carrie Chapman, American suffragist and peace advocate
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Chapman, Maria Weston, American abolitionist
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Chavez-Thompson, Linda, American labor leader
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Child, Lydia Maria , American author and abolitionist
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Crandell, Prudence, American educator and abolitionist
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Crenshaw, Anne Clay, American women's voting advocate
Davies - King
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Davies, Emily (Sarah Emily Davies), British feminist, co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge
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Davis, Angela, American political activist, author
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Davis, Paulina Wright, American lecturer and suffragist
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Dee, Ruby, actor, writer, activist
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Deraismes, Maria, French feminist
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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, American social reformer, pioneer in the movement for specialized treatment of the insane
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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, pioneering conservationist
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Duchesne, Rose Philippine, French educator in the United States
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Ebadi, Shirin , lawyer, activist, Nobel laureate
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Eddy, Mary Baker, founder, Christian Science Church
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Edelman, Marian Wright, American lawyer, civil rights activist, children's advocate
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Evers-Williams, Myrlie, American civil rights leader
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Fonda, Jane, American actor, activist
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Ford, Betty, former First Lady of the United States, humanitarian
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Foster, Abigail Kelley, American abolitionist and advocate of women's rights
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Friedan, Betty Naomi, American social reformer and feminist
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Fry, Elizabeth (Gurney), English prison reformer and philanthropist
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Fuller, Margaret, American writer and lecturer and feminist
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Gage, Matilda Joslyn, American woman suffrage leader
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, American feminist and reformer
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Goldman, Emma, American anarchist
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Greer, Germaine, Australian author
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Grimké, Angelina Emily, American abolitionist and advocate of woman's rights
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Grimké, Sarah Moore, American abolitionist and advocate of woman's rights
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Hamer, Fannie Lou (Townsend), American civil rights activist
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Hamilton, Alice, American physician and educator
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Harper, Ida Husted, American woman suffragist
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Howe, Julia Ward, American labor leader
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Huerta, Dolores, American author and social reformer
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Idar, Jovita, American journalist and political activist
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Jackson, Helen (Fiske) Hunt, American writer - chronicled injustice to Native Americans Native American
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Jagger, Bianca, activist
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Jones, Mary Harris, American labor agitator, called Mother Jones
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Kelley, Florence, American social worker and reformer
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Keller, Helen Adams, American author and lecturer, advocate for the blind and other social causes
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King, Coretta Scott, American civil rights leader
La Flesche - Sanger
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La Flesche, Susette, reformer, writer, and lecturer
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Lathrop, Julia Clifford, American social worker and administrator
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Lease, Mary Elizabeth, American agrarian reformer and temperance advocate
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Lockwood, Belva, American lawyer and women's rights activist
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Low, Juliette Gordon, founder of Girl scouts
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Maathai, Wangari, conservationist, Nobel laureate
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Millett, Kate, writer, political activist, artist
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Mills, Heather, activist, model
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Mott, Lucretia Coffin, American feminist and reformer
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Nation, Carry Moore, American temperance advocate
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O'Hair, Madalyn Murray, atheist, activist
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Pankhurst, Emmeline Goulden, British woman suffragist
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Parks, Rosa Lee, American civil rights activist
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Paul, Alice, American activist
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Perkins, Frances, U.S. Secretary of Labor
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Rankin, Jeannette, American pacifist, suffragist and member of the 77th Congress
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Roosevelt, Eleanor (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt), American humanitarian
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Sanger, Margaret (Higgins), American leader in the birth control movement
Seton - Wright
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Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann, American Roman Catholic leader, usually called Mother Seton
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Shaw, Anna Howard, American woman-suffrage leader
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Sheehan, Cindy, activist
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Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy, philanthropist, mental health activist
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Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury, American social worker
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Spencer, Anna Garlin, American educator, feminist, and Unitarian minister
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, American reformer, a leader of the woman suffrage movement
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Steinem, Gloria, American journalist and feminist
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Stone, Lucy, reformer and leader in the woman's rights movement
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Szold, Henrietta, American Zionist leader
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Tarbell, Ida Minerva, American author and muckraker
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Terrell, Mary Eliza Church, American civil rights and women's rights activist
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Thomas, Martha Carey, American educator and feminist
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Truth, Sojourner, American abolitionist, a freed slave
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Tubman, Harriet, American abolitionist
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Valentine, Lila Meade, American women's rights, public health, and education activist
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Wald, Lillian D., American social worker and pioneer in public health nursing
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Wattleton, Faye, American activist
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Wells-Barnett, Ida B., American journalist and activist
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Willard, Emma, American educator, pioneer in woman's education
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth, American temperance leader and reformer
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Williams, Betty, Northern Irish peace activist
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Williams, Jody, American activist
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, English author and feminist
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Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin), American radical and feminist
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Wright, Frances, Scottish-American reformer
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