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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
Katherine Von Bora
Former Catholic nun turned Protestant reformer
Artemisia Gentileschi
Painting title: Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Hatshepsut
Female pharaoh who led Egypt into a time of peace and economic prosperity
Abigail Adams
Counseled John Adams and encouraged US founding fathers to not leave women out of the freedoms and privileges of the new republic
Anna "Annie" Clemenc
Michigan labor activist who rallied workers and fought against capitalists so that laborers could sit at the bargaining table
Anne Davidow
Michigan attorney who worked for labor and women's rights
Anne Hutchinson
In colonial US, she dared to believe that women could take an active role in religion
Sister Ardeth Platte
Humanitarian who has spent her adult life working for social justice