American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)
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Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be ...
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Virginia Elenor "Ginny" Montes (1943–1994) was a civil rights activist and feminist who was the first Latina to become a national officer of the National Organization for Women.
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Sidney Abbott (July 11, 1937 – April 15, 2015) was an American feminist and lesbian activist and writer. A former member of the Lavender Menace, she co-authored Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated ...
American union organizer and civil rights activist
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Aileen Clarke Hernandez (May 23, 1926 – February 13, 2017) was an African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist who served as the president of the National Organ ...
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Hala Ayala (born 1973) is an American cybersecurity specialist and politician representing the 51st district in the Virginia House of Delegates. She is a Democratic candidate in the 2021 Virginia lieutenant ...
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Patricia Hill Burnett (September 5, 1920 - December 29, 2014), born Patricia Hill, was an American portrait artist and women's rights activist.
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Jan BenDor (born 1946) is a women's rights activist based in the Ann Arbor area of Michigan in the United States. Known as the "Founding Mother of the Rape Crisis Center movement in Michigan," she was ...
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Dolores Alexander (August 10, 1931 – May 13, 2008) was a lesbian feminist, writer, and reporter. Alexander was the only Executive Director of the National Organization for Women (NOW) to have resigned ...
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Rosalie Abrams was an American feminist playwright, actress and activist. She founded the Orange County Feminist Repertory Theater and the first chapter of the National Organization for Women in Orange ...
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Mary Esther Gaulden Jagger (April 30,1921 – September 1, 2007), known professionally as "Mary Esther Gaulden", was an American radiation geneticist, professor of radiology and political activist who a ...
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Gerald Henry Frazier Gardner (March 2, 1926 – July 25, 2009) was an Irish mathematician, geophysicist and social activist whose statistical analysis led to the banning of classified advertising ...
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Dr. Marguerite Rawalt (16 October 1895 – 16 December 1989) was an American writer and lawyer who lobbied in Congress on behalf of women's rights. She worked for the Internal Revenue Service for 30 years ...
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Jacqueline "Jacqui" Michot Ceballos (born September 8, 1925) is an American feminist and activist. Ceballos is the former president of New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women and founder ...
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Anna Arnold Hedgeman (July 5, 1899 – January 17, 1990) was an African-American civil rights leader, politician, educator, and writer. After being the executive director of Harry Truman's 1948 presidential ...
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Carl Neumann Degler (February 6, 1921 in Newark, New Jersey – December 27, 2014 in Palo Alto, California) was a United States historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was the Margaret Byrne Professor ...
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Rosemary Dempsey a noted American Activist, has served many roles in second wave feminism, civil rights movements, and anti-war protests. Her most notable positions were Vice President for Action of The ...