A Northern Paiute leader, negotiator, lecturer, activist, social reformer, and writer. The first Native American woman to publish a book.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture, Academy & Education, Literature & Poetry.
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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.
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Eve Ensler, 1953
Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and feminist activist. The founder of the V-Day movement, best known as the writer of the play The Vagina Monologues.
Category: Literature & Poetry, Theater & Cinema, Activism & Feminism. -
Margaret Mitchell, 1900-1949
Pulitzer Prize-winner novelist and journalist, the author of the novel “Gone with the Wind.”
Category: Literature & Poetry. -
Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006
A civil and equal rights leader, women’s rights activist, musician, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Politics & Leaders, Music, Literature & Poetry. -
Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850
Journalist, critic, editor, translator, and women's and civil rights advocate. The first female book reviewer in the US.
Category: Literature & Poetry, Media, Activism & Feminism. -
Helen Keller, 1880-1968
Author, political activist, lecturer, and the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Literature & Poetry, Academy & Education. -
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
Poet, author, lecturer, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, co-founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), and one of the initiators of US Mother’s Day.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Literature & Poetry. -
Julia de Burgos, 1914-1953
An iconic poet of Puerto Rico, and an advocate of Puerto Rican independence, who served as Secretary-General of the Daughters of Freedom.
Category: Literature & Poetry, Activism & Feminism. -
Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867-1957
American author, mostly known for writing the book series “Little House on the Prairie.”
Category: Literature & Poetry, Media.