Women In History - Human Rights, Suffragists, and Wartime
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1776 – Power, Pen, and Petticoats: Abigail and Mercy Spill the Tea!
Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren were friends, then frenemies, then friends again, but never wavered in their support for the new nation.
Bella Abzug (1920-1998)
United States Congresswoman and rights activist.
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Social Activist, founder of Hull House, charter member of the NAACP, Nobel Peace Prize winner and labor union organizer.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Seamstress, servant, teacher, Civil War nurse, and finally, author and novelist
Marion Anderson (1897-1993)
African American Contralto
Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906)
Napoleon of the women's suffrage movement, mother of the 19th Amendment, abolitionist
Sara Lucy Bagby (1833-1906)
One of the last fugitives to be surrendered by the North and returned to the South under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act before the Civil War.
Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931)
African-American educator, newspaperwoman, anti-lynching campaigner, founder NAACP
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Civil War nurse, founder of the American Red Cross
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
African-American educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, Presidential advisor, recipient of Spingarn Medal
Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown (1867-1932)
Titanic survivor and a woman who was determined to break the rules of "high society"
Mother Cabrini (1850-1917)
The first American to be recognized by the Vatican as a saint
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)
African-American born pioneer journalist and lecturer
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Suffragette, founder of the League of Women Voters
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
American journalist, social activist and best-known political radical among American Catholics.
Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898)
Served as a man with the Union Army
Ruth Etting (1897-1978)
Singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film.
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
African American Jazz singer – the First Lady of Song
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Vilified in her day as the "most dangerous woman in America," this Russian emigrant earned her title, “Queen of the Anarchists” as labor leader, lecturer, writer, women’s rights activist and free love advocate
Julia Boggs Dent Grant (1826-1902)
Wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, was a determined woman who despite family objections married the man she loved. Outspoken, she also created her own plans for ending the Civil War and holding a secret Presidential Inauguration.
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
African-American sharecropper turned civil rights worker and founder of the MS Freedom Democratic Party
Florence Harding (1860-1924)
Wife of Warren Harding, 29th President of the United States, the first presidential wife able to vote for her husband. Scandal plagued this First Lady throughout her life
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
African American Jazz singer/songwriter – “Lady Day”
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USNR (1906-1992)
Amazing Grace! Computer pioneer and Navy veteran
“We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question."
“We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question."
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643)
A Puritan woman who defied the male-dominated Massachusetts Bay Colony and after banishment helped settle Rhode Island and New York
“Mother” Mary Harris Jones (1837-1930)
Irish immigrant who lost her family to yellow fever and became the self-proclaimed mother and “hell-raiser” for the downtrodden American laborer, especially children
Katie Luther (1449-1552)
The First Lady of the Reformation, beloved wife of Martin Luther
Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)
Founding Mother of the Women’s Movement. Suffragist, Abolitionist, Quaker
Florence Nightingale (1810 – 1920)
Founder of Modern Nursing
Rosa Parks 1913-2005)
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Civil rights activist, know for refusing to give up her bus seat
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Alice Paul (1885-1977)
The woman who rescued the woman suffrage movement (1910) and made sure women got the vote
Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) (1754-1832)
Born Mary Ludwig, this revolutionary heroine followed the Continental Army for more than 3 years, doing what was needed to free the colonies from the tyranny of England
Queen Isabella of Castille (1474-1504)
Wife of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, united Spain, and sponsored Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage to the "New World"
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)
The first woman to hold federal office in the United States
Eleanor Anna Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, first activist First Lady
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
First president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association
Harriet Beecher Stowe ( 1811-1896)
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Phebe Sutliff (1859–1955)
American educator who served as president of Rockford College in Illinois
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
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African-American lecturer, suffragette, civil rights leader
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Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) (1797-1883)
African-American abolitionist, Civil War nurse, suffragette
Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913)
Underground Railroad conductor, Army scout, African-American suffragette
Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900)
Crazy Bet, an abolitionist in the South during the Civil War, who feigned insanity to free slaves and help the Union Army
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919)
Prisoner of war during the Civil War, writer, doctor, fashion trend-setter and the only female to receive the Medal of Honor
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927)
First woman to run for President, center of a scandal that rocked the nation