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Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Sister of Providence
“My sisters, whatever concerns the poor is always our affair.” Mother Joseph of...
Bella Abzug
1920-1998 Abzug was a powerful organizer, speaker and legislator who pressed for women's...
Jane Addams
1860-1935 With Ellen Gates Starr, she opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889, a settlement...
Lisa Andrus-Rivera
Lisa Andrus-Rivera is indeed a heroine, both to the hundreds of students she has taught in the...
Susan B. Anthony
1820-1906 A suffragist and early women’s rights leader Anthony was born in Adams,...
Margaret Jewett Bailey
Novelist and author of Ruth Rover whose birth and death elude chronology, Margaret Jewitt (Smith)...
Margaret Miller Baker
Margaret Miller Baker was a teacher, author and poet. Her favorite art form was the short story and...
Ruth T. Bakke
Ruth was born in a small log cabin in Ferndale, Washington. She had older sisters and...
Frances Dana Barker Gage
1808-1884 Through her readings she developed an interest in reform issues and under the name "...