- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902), was an American social activist and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, … - Alice Paul
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns (a close friend) and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920. - Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights. She is credited as the first American "feminist" in the early 1800s but was, more accurately, the initiator of women's political advocacy. - Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well-educated American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to secure women's suffrage in the United States. She traveled thousands of miles throughout the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's rights for some 45 years. Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, New York, … - Esther Hobart Morris
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 - April 2, 1902) was a leader in the American woman's suffrage movement. She was also the first woman to serve as a justice of the peace in the United States. Esther Hobart Morris was born in Tioga County, New York. Orphaned at age 11, she was apprenticed to a seamstress and became a successful milliner and businesswoman. As a young woman she was active in the anti-slavery movement. Widowed in 1845, she moved to Peru, Illinois, … - Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt (January 91859 - March 9 1947) was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) twice; her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915 to 1920. - Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman aka 'Red Emma', was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics. Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in the United States and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. - Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, which became known as "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Before she became a well known abolitionist she was a follower of "The Kingdom of Matthias," an evangelical cult of the Second Great Awakening of America. - Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 - October 18, 1893, died at age 75) was a prominent American suffragist. She was the wife of abolitionist Henry Brown Blackwell (1825-1909) (the brother of Elizabeth Blackwell) and the mother of Alice Stone Blackwell, another prominent suffragette, journalist and human rights defender. Stone was best known for being the first recorded American woman to keep her own last name upon marriage. </tr> <tr> <td><center></center></td> </table> - Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 - May 31, 1910) was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and the first female doctor in the United States. Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children born to a sugar refiner, named Samuel Blackwell, who could afford to give his numerous sons, and also daughters, an education. Samuel Blackwell believed that his daughters should get the same education as boys so he had his daughters tutored. - Matilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression". Though born in Cicero, New York, Gage maintained residence in Fayetteville, New York for the majority of her life. She is interred at Fayetteville Cemetery. - Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when she will bear children. - Amelia Bloomer
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818-December 30, 1894) was an American women's rights and temperance advocate. Bloomer came from a family of modest means and received only a few years of formal schooling. When she was 22, she married attorney Dexter Bloomer who encouraged her to write for his New York newspaper, the "Seneca Falls County Courier". Bloomer and her family moved to Iowa in 1852. She died at Council Bluffs, Iowa. - Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe (May 271819 - October 171910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the fourth of six children born to Samuel Ward (1786 - 1839) and Julia Rush Cutler. Her father was a well-to-do banker. - Frances Wright
Frances Wright (September 6 1795-December 131852) was a lecturer, writer, feminist, abolitionist, and utopian. Wright was born to a wealthy family in Dundee, Scotland, the daughter of James Wright, designer of Dundee trade tokens. When she was orphaned at the age of three, she was left with a substantial inheritance. By the age of 18, she had written her first book. She emigrated to United States in 1818, and with her sister toured from 1818 to 1820. - Mary Edwards Walker
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 - February 21, 1919) was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war, surgeon, and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor. - Lydia Child
Lydia Maria Child (February 11 1802 - July 7 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist. She is perhaps most remembered for her poem, "Over the River and Through the Woods". (Her grandfather's house, restored by Tufts University in 1976, still stands near the Mystic River on South Street in Medford, Massachusetts.) - Lucy Burns
Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879-December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Paul. Together, they formed the National Woman's Party. Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish Catholic family. She was a gifted student and attended university at Vassar College and Yale University before becoming an English teacher. In 1906 at age twenty-seven she moved to Germany to resume her studies in language. - Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 - June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist (see Suffragette) who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century. She became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love, and labor reforms. The authorship of her speeches and articles is disputed. Some contend that many of her speeches on these subjects were not written by Woodhull herself, … - Heather Higgins
Heather Richardson Higgins is an American businesswoman, political commentator, and non-profit sector executive who lives in New York City. Described as a political "diva" by some sources, Higgins has been associated with the full gamut of political and policy organizations. These range from non-profit, non-partisan organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations and her family's Randolph Foundation to media organizations with more pronounced political affinities, … - Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts "The Tammy Bruce Show," a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. "The Tammy Bruce Show" broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel. She is described on her website as "an openly homosexual, … - Abby Kelley
Abby Kelley (Abby Kelley Foster) (January 15 1811 - January 14 1887) was an American abolitionist and radical social reformer. - Judi Bari
Judi Bari (November 7, 1949 - March 2, 1997) was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First! campaigns against logging in the ancient redwood forests of Northern California as well as efforts through Industrial Workers of the World Local 1 to bring timber workers and environmentalists together in common cause. - Kathy Rudy
M Kathy Rudy is an associate professor of women's studies and ethics at Duke University. Rudy's work is often interdisciplinary as she merges philosophy, theology, politics, feminism, and medical ethics. She is open about her homosexuality, and is a radical social constructionist. - Clarina I. H. Nichols
Clarina Irene Howard Nichols (January 25, 1810 - January 11, 1885) was a journalist, lobbyist and public speaker involved in all three of the major reform movements of the mid-19th century: temperance, abolition, and the women's movement that emerged largely out of the ranks of the first two. Though prominent enough in her time to merit her own chapter in Anthony's "History of Woman Suffrage", … - Jo Freeman
Jo Freeman (a.k.a. Joreen) (born 1945) is an American feminist and scholar noted for her feminist activism in the 1960s and 1970s. She is the author of "The Tyranny of Structurelessness", a pamphlet critical of the "structureless" organizing models employed by the women's movement during that time (see Democratic structuring). Freeman has won various awards for her scholarly involvement in politics and feminism, … - Alice Freeman Palmer
Alice Freeman Palmer (February 21 1855 - December 6 1902) was an American educator. She was born Alice Elvira Freeman in Colesville, New York and brought up in Windsor, New York. She graduated at the University of Michigan in 1876, taught at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (1876-77), and at Saginaw, Mich. (1877-79). Elected to the chair of history in Wellesley College in 1879, she became acting president the next year and president of Wellesley College in 1882. - Carol Downer
Carol Downer, born in 1933, is a feminist from the United States. She and Lorraine Rothman founded the Feminist Women's Health Center in 1971. Downer and Rothman promoted self-administered cervical exams and promoted non-professional abortions called menstrual extraction. Downer began her reproductive rights career on the Abortion Task Force of NOW with Lana Phelan, author of "The Abortion Handbook", who became her mentor. - Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw, (February 14, 1847 - July 2, 1919) was a leading United States civil rights leader; a physician; and the first female Methodist minister in the United States (1880). She was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, but was brought to the United States as a small child. She studied at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, 1872-1875, graduated from the Boston University School of Theology in 1878, and received an M.D. from Boston University in 1885. - Olympia Brown
Olympia Brown was a famous Women's suffragist. She was born in Prairie Ronde, Michigan. She attended Mount Holyoke College (then called "Mount Holyoke Female Seminary") from 1854-55 but found it to orthodox for her already progressive viewpoints. She then transferred to, and graduated from, Antioch College in 1860. - May Craig
Elisabeth May Adams Craig was a pioneering U.S. woman journalist, best known for her reports on the Second World War, Korean War and U.S. politics. She was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and was also a campaigner for equality in children's education. Although May Craig was a Southerner, she got her break in journalism working for a Maine-based Gannett chain of newspapers (including the "Portland Press Herald"). - Ruth Hale
Ruth Hale worked for women's rights in the era before and after World War I in New York City. Hale was a freelance writer. She was married to journalist Heywood Broun and was an associate of the Algonquin Round Table. Hale was the founder of the Lucy Stone League, an organization whose motto was "My name is the symbol for my identity and must not be lost." A biographer termed Hale "nearly fanatical" about women’s rights. - Parker Pillsbury
Parker Pillsbury (September 22, 1809 - July 7, 1898) was an American minister and advocate for abolition and women's rights. Pillsbury was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts. He moved to Henniker, New Hampshire where he later farmed and worked as a wagoner. With the encouragement of his local Congregational church, Pillsbury entered Gilmanton Theological Seminary in 1835, graduating in 1839. - Sharon Sayles Belton
Sharon Sayles Belton (born May 13, 1951) is an American community leader, politician and activist. She was the first African American and the first female mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is currently a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota Roy Wilkins Center. - Perdita Huston
Perdita Constance Huston (May 2, 1936 - December 4, 2001) was an American journalist and women's rights activist. She is commemorated by the international Perdita Huston Human Rights Award. Born in Portland, Maine, Huston studied in France and later worked in Africa. She was director of public affairs for TIME magazine in French-speaking countries, and in 1978 became a Regional Director of the Peace Corps. - Emma Willard
Emma C. (Hart) Willard (February 23, 1787 - April 15, 1870) was an American women's rights advocate and the pioneer who founded the first women's school of higher education. Emma Willard was born Emma Hart in Berlin, Connecticut, the sixteenth of her father's seventeen children and the ninth of her mother's ten children, of Samuel Hart and his second wife, Lydia Hinsdale Hart. She attended a district school at Worthington Point. - Sheema Kalbasi
Sheema Kalbasi is a human right activist, an award winning poet, and literary translator. She is the director of Dialogue of Nations through Poetry in Translation, director of Poetry of Iranian Women Project, the poetry editor of The Muse Apprentice Guild and the co- director of the Other Voices International. She has authored two collections of poems, Echoes in Exile in English, and Sangsar (Stoning) in Persian. - Martha Coffin Wright
Martha Coffin Wright (December 25, 1806 - 1875) was an American feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments. - Susan Still
Susan Still (born 1964, New York state) is an American housewife who escaped decade-long domestic abuse by husband Ulner Lee Still in 2003 and testified against Ulner. In December 2004, New York State Supreme Court Justice John F. O'Donnell handed Ulner Still a 36-year prison sentence. The grounds were assault in the second degree (six counts), assault in the third degree (six counts), and endangering the welfare of a child (two counts), … - Hallie Quinn Brown
Hallie Quinn Brown was an American educator, writer and activist. She was born in 1849 and died in 1949. She attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, gaining a Bachelor of Science degree. After graduationg she became a teacher and later returned to Wilberforce to teach. Throughout her life, Brown was an activist for civil rights for women and African Americans.
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