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| x Emily Murphy |
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Person | Women's rights |
Emily Murphy (March 14, 1868 - October 17, 1933) was a Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first woman magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian...
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| x Henrietta Edwards |
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Person | Women's rights |
Henrietta Mair Edwards (December 18, 1849 – November 10, 1931) was a Canadian women’s rights activist and reformer.
She was born Henrietta Louise Mair in Montreal. As a young woman, she espoused various feminist causes, forming the Working Girls'...
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| x Louise McKinney |
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Louise McKinney (September 22, 1868 - July 10, 1931), born Louise Crummey, was the first woman sworn in to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire. The first woman elected...
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| x Irene Parlby |
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Irene Parlby (January 9, 1868 – July 12, 1965) was a Canadian farm women's leader, activist and politician.
Born in London, England, Parlby came to Canada in 1896. In 1913, Parlby helped to found the first women's local of the United Farmers of...
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| x Nellie McClung |
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Person | Women's suffrage |
Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney (October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. She...
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| x Emmeline Pankhurst |
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Person | Women's rights |
Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. Although she was widely criticised for her militant tactics, her work is recognised as a crucial element in...
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| x Howshua Amariel |
Howshua Amariel is a translator of the Biblical Hebrew (also known as Ancient Hebrew or the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet) and the author of the interlinear style Paleo-Hebrew text, entitled “THIS REPORT: The Hebrew/Phoenician History called the Bible”....
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| x Heather Brooke |
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Heather Brooke is a journalist and Information Campaigner. She lives in the UK and wrote a successful book in the UK called Your Right to Know: A Citizens Guide to Freedom of Information.
In May 2008 Brooke won a High court battle to release MPs'...
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| x Nigel gibson | Person |
Nigel Gibson is an activist and scholar. He was born in London and was an active militant in the 1984 -1985 Miners' Strike. While in London he also met South African exiles from the Black Consciousness Movement and, in conversation with the exiles,...
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| x Amal Hijazi |
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Amal Hijazi or Amal Higazi (Arabic:أمل حجازى) (born on February 20, 1978) is a Lebanese singer, model and pop icon. She is currently one of the most active Lebanese singers and has given a number of concerts throughout the world and has made...
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| x Matthew Jones |
Matthew Jones is an African-American folk singer/songwriter known for being director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's The Freedom Singers in the 1960s.
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| x Ron Link | Refractive surgery |
Ron Link is a former firefighter and actor who founded Surgical Eyes in 1999 to help patients with complications from LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) and other types of refractive eye surgery. Surgical Eyes was featured in media...
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| x T.J. Parsell | Author |
T.J. Parsell is a writer, filmmaker and human rights activist. He is author of the book, Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison (Carrol & Graf, 2006), which has received praise in several reviews. Additionally, he is also a contributor to Dirty...
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| x Bob Wood |
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Robert Edward "Bob" Wood (Born Feb. 1957) is an American author, teacher, and activist. As a 28 year-old high-school history teacher from Kalamazoo, Michigan (though teaching in Seattle at the time), he wrote the 1988 best selling book Dodger Dogs...
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| x Handrij Zejler |
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Handrij Zejler (1 February 1804 – 15 October 1872) was a Sorbian/Wendish writer, pastor and national activist. He co-founded the Lusatian cultural and scientific society Maćica Serbska.
Zejler was born on February 1, 1804 in Słona Boršć (German:...
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| x Elvia Carrillo Puerto | Person |
Elvia Carrillo Puerto (1878 – 1967) was a Mexican socialist politician and feminist activist. Elvia had been married at the age of 13 and widowed by 21. She founded Mexico's first feminist leagues in 1912, including the League of Rita Cetina...
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| x Rola Dashti |
Dr. Rola Dashti is a leading activist in Kuwait and throughout the region advocating democratic reform, fighting for gender equality and increasing roles for women in public life. Most recently, Dr. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting...
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| x Deeyah |
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Deeyah, born Deepika Thathaal (August 7, 1977 in Oslo, Norway), is a Pakistani-Norwegian singer, composer and human rights activist of Punjabi and Pashtun descent. Born to Sunni Muslim Pakistani parents. She is often dubbed the “Muslim Madonna”, a...
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| x Flora Dunlap | Person | Women's rights |
Flora Dunlap became president of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, in 1913. She also headed the Roadside Settlement House, in Des Moines, Iowa. She was a friend of Jane Addams.
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| x Lucienne Herman-Michielsens | Person |
Lucienne Adeline Jeanne Ida Michielsens (Ghent, 13 March 1926 -22 January 1995) was a Belgian liberal politician for the Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV). She was married to the physician Jacques Herman.
Michielsens first became a teacher like...
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| x Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain |
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Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, Bangla: (বেগম রোকেয়া), (1880 – December 9, 1932) was a prolific writer and a social worker in undivided Bengal in the early 20th century. She is most famous for her efforts on behalf of gender equality and other social...
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| x Beba Idelson | Person |
Beba Idelson (Hebrew: בבה אידלסון, 14 November 1895 (née Trakhtenbereg) – 5 January 1975) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
Trakhtenbereg was born in Ekaterinoslav in the Russian Empire (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) in 1895. When she...
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| x Houzan Mahmoud |
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Houzan Mahmoud (1973- ), is a renowned Kurdish women rights and anti-war activist born in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was the main speaker at the anti-war rally in March 2003 in London and the Co-founder of Iraqi Women’s Rights Coalition. She has led an...
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| x Shamsunnahar Mahmud | Person |
Shamsunnahar Mahmud (Bengali: শামসুন্নাহার মাহমুদ) (1908 – 1964) was a writer, politician and educator in Bengal during the early 20th century. She was a leader of Islamic feminism in Bengal after the death of Roquia Sakhawat Hussain.
Her father,...
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| x Phoebe Palmer |
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Phoebe Palmer (December 17, 1807 – November 2, 1874) was an evangelist and writer who promoted the doctrine of Christian perfection. She is considered one of the founders of the Holiness movement in the United States of America and the Higher Life...
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| x Irene Xavier | Person |
Irene Xavier is a Malaysian women's rights activist. She is a prominent member of the Women's Aid Organisation (WAO) - a women's rights NGO. She is also a key activist of Suaram, Malaysia's leading human rights organisation.
Irene was one of the 106...
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| x Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi | Person |
Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863-1936) (Arabic: جميل صدقي الزهاوي, transliteration: Jamīl Sidqī al-Zahāwī) was a prominent Iraqi poet and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary poets of the Arab world and was known for his...
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| x Guru Nanak Dev |
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Person | Women's rights |
Guru Nanak Dev (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਦੇਵ, Hindi: गुरु नानक, Urdu: گرونانک Gurū Nānak, 15 April 1469, Nankana Sahib, Punjab, - 22 September 1539, Kartarpur, Punjab, India), is the central figure in Sikhism, and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.
Guru...
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| x Sor Juana |
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Person | Women's rights |
Sor Juana (November 12, 1651 [or 1648, according to some biographers] – April 17, 1695), also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje (or Asuaje) y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught Novohispana...
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| x Mary Wollstonecraft |
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Person | Women's rights |
Mary Wollstonecraft (pronounced /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the...
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| x Margaret Fuller |
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Person | Women's rights |
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist associated with the American transcendental movement. She was the first full-time female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in...
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| x Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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Person | Women's rights |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca...
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| Deceased Person | Women's suffrage | |||
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| x Susan B. Anthony |
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Person | Women's rights |
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the...
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| Deceased Person | Women's suffrage | |||
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| x Sara Jane Lippincott |
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Person | Women's rights |
Sara Jane Lippincott (1823-1904) was better known by the pseudonym Grace Greenwood. She was an American author, poet and lecturer. One of the first women to gain access into the Congressional press galleries, she used her questions to advocate for...
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| x Mahatma Jyotirao Phule | Person | Women's rights |
Jotiba Govindrao Phule (Marathi: जोतीबा गोविंदराव फुले) (April 11, 1827 — November 28, 1890), also known as Krantisurya Jotiba Phule was an activist, thinker, social reformer and revolutionary from Maharashtra in the nineteenth century. Jotiba Phule...
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| x Marianne Hainisch | Person | Women's rights |
Marianne Hainisch (born Perger) (March 25, 1839 in Baden bei Wien - May 5, 1936 in Vienna) was the founder and leader of the Austrian women's movement. She was also the mother of Michael Hainisch, the first President of Austria (1920 - 1928).
In...
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| x Kate Sheppard |
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Person | Women's rights |
Katherine Wilson Sheppard (10 March 1847 or 1848– 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, and is the country's most famous suffragette. Because New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal...
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| Deceased Person | Women's suffrage | |||
| x Ida B. Wells |
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Person | Women's rights |
Ida Bell Wells (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an African American sociologist, civil rights leader and a women |