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.
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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.
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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.
Category: Arts, Academy & Education, Activism & Feminism. -
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. -
Sarah Josepha Hale, 1788-1879
A writer, a poet, an editor, and a women's rights advocate. Known for authoring the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and campaigning for making Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Category: Literature & Poetry, Activism & Feminism. -
Erin Brockovich, 1960
An environmental activist and a consumer advocate. Famous for the case she built against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California in 1993.
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Clara Shortridge Foltz, 1849-1934
The first female lawyer on the west coast, a public defender pioneer, an editor, and a suffrage leader.
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Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Abolitionist, suffragist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. The first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.
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Bessie Coleman, 1892-1926
The first African-American woman and the first Native American civil pilot in the US.
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Judy Chicago, 1939
A feminist artist, art educator, and writer.
Category: Arts, Activism & Feminism.