Surgeon, abolitionist, and women’s rights advocate. The first and only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Army & Security Forces, Health.
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Verda Freeman Welcome, 1907-1990
Educator, civil rights leader, politician. The first African-American to serve in Maryland State Senate and the second black woman to be elected to a state senate in the US.
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Stacey Abrams, 1973
A Politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and bestselling author. The first African-American woman to be a major party’s nominee for governor, the first African-American to lead in the House of Representatives of Georgia, and the first African-American woman and first Georgian to deliver a Response to the State of the Union.
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Mary Latimer McLendon, 1840-1921
Temperance and women’s suffrage leader, president of the Georgia Women’s Suffrage Association. Best known as “Mother of Suffrage Work in Georgia.”
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Hannah G. Solomon, 1858-1942
A social reformer, the founder and first president of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW).
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Alice Dunbar Nelson, 1875-1935
A poet, journalist, playwright, and political activist. Associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
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Lillian Wald, 1867-1940
A nurse, social reformer, suffragist, peace and civil rights activist. The founder of the Henry Street Settlement and several health organizations in the US.
Category: Health, Activism & Feminism. -
Adelina Otero-Warren, 1881-1965
A suffrage leader, educator, and politician. The first Latina to run for US Congress and one of the first’s women to serve as a government official in New Mexico.
Category: Academy & Education, Activism & Feminism, Politics & Leaders. -
Natalie de Blois, 1921-2013
A pioneer architect, an educator, and an activist. Several of her designs are included in the tallest woman-designed buildings in the world.
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Dorothy Day, 1897-1980
A Catholic human rights activist, pacifist, and journalist. The co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Religion & Ethnic Culture, Media.