A person that supported voting rights for women * delegate
santo
civil right activist
suffragist

suffragist

Explanation:

we refer to people who supported voting rights for women as suffragists

D.

Explanation:

santo- (in Mexico and Spanish-speaking areas of the southwestern US) a religious symbol, especially a wooden representation of a saint

Civil Rights Activist- Civil rights activists, known for their fight against social injustice and their lasting impact on the lives of all oppressed people, include Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X.

Suffragist- a person advocating that the right to vote be extended to more people, especially to women.

delegate- a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.