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Rosa Parks
Activist who fought to make society safer for women and to end racial segregation
Betty Friedan
Co-creator of the National Organization for Women in the US and author of noted works highlighting women's subordinate status in the US
Abigail Adams
Counseled John Adams and encouraged US founding fathers to not leave women out of the freedoms and privileges of the new republic
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Leader of the 19th century women's rights movement
Gloria Steinem
Reporter and speaker whose activism revolutionized the women's rights movement of the latter 20th c. in the US
Alice Paul
Suffragist who started the National Woman's Party and was willing to lose her freedom for the cause
Nawal el Saadawi
Egyptian physician who combats female genital mutilation
Sojourner Truth
Former slave who fought for suffrage and abolition
Susan B. Anthony
Prominent civil rights leader for women in the United States
Victoria Woodhull
Female candidate for president of the United States in the 19th c. under the "Equal Rights" party.