Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger. Rosa became known for her human rights activism, being named “First Lady of Civil Rights” by the United States Congress. Over time, she has collaborated with leaders such as Edgar Nixon and Martin Luther King Jr.
If we don’t want to reduce the number to 10, I’d also include Harriet Tubman.
I’d replace Diana with Elizabeth I.
On the basis of Lincoln calling her “the little lady who started the big war” and because “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a worldwide bestseller that sold more copies world wide in English and in translations, I would also include Harriet Beecher Stowe. And because Hanna Arendt included her in her book “Men in Dark Times,” I would also include Rosa Luxemberg. And what about Florence Nightingale and Margaret Sanger?