Nellie Mooney McClung

Nellie Mooney McClung was a Canadian author, social activist and politician. She was part of the social and moral reform movements in Western Canada in the early 1900s. She is part of The Famous Five, a group of five women who decided they wanted women to be classified as persons. These women are Nellie McClung, Ellie Murphy, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Edwards. Nellie was born in 1873 on October 20th and died on September 1st, 1951. She won the right for women to vote and for women to be considered as people, obviously. Her great causes were women's suffrage and the temperance. Women's suffrage is the right for women to vote. She was a good person and an extremely amazing role model, I look up to her. She is an amazing woman.