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Born September 26, 1946 • Camden • New Jersey
Died April 9, 2005 (aged 58) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Role In women’s rights movement
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Catharine A. MacKinnon
American feminist and law professor
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan
American author and feminist
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago
American artist
Abzug, Bella
Bella Abzug
American politician
Jeannette Rankin, 1918
Jeannette Rankin
American politician
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
American feminist, political activist, and editor
Martin, Anne Henrietta
Anne Henrietta Martin
American reformer and educator
Kate Millett
American feminist, author, and artist
bell hooks
bell hooks
American scholar
Perle Mesta, 1955.
Perle Mesta
American diplomat
Height, Dorothy
Dorothy Height
American civil and women’s rights activist
Jill Ker Conway
American scholar
Catherine East
American feminist and public official
Barbara Christian
Caribbean-American educator and critic
Nancy Friday
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Joyce Banda
Joyce Banda
president of Malawi
Huda Sharawi
Egyptian feminist and nationalist
Tawakkol Karman
Tawakkol Karman
Yemeni women’s rights activist