Ivone_Guimarães
Ivone Guimarães Batista Lopes (Pitangui, 15 June 1908 – 9 March 1999) was a Brazilian professor, suffragist and activist. She along with Celina Guimarães Viana and Miêtta Santiago were the first women to vote in Brazil.[1]
On 17 October 1928, she spoke up alongside Miêtta Santiago who challenged the constitutionality of the ban on women voting in Brazil, stating that it breached Article 70 of the country's Constitution, dated February 24, 1891, which was then in force. This action led Guimarães to become one of the pioneers in exercising the right to vote in her country.[1][2]