Tag: Abolitionist

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.

Abolitionist, suffragist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. The first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.
Category: Media, Law, Activism & Feminism.

Abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and philanthropist. A prominent figure in Chicago’s African-American community in the 19th century, operating a station of the underground railroad from her home.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Philanthropy.

Civil rights activist, a law professor, and an African-American history expert. One of the most significant women in the Black Panther Party.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education, Politics & Leaders.

A famous and influential dancer and choreographer, known as “the mother of black dance.”
Category: Arts, Theater & Cinema, Academy & Education, Activism & Feminism.

An educator and civil rights icon, her precedential refusal to get off a segregated streetcar sparked the anti-racial movement among the African-American community.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.

An author, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, and a Native-American rights activist.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Media.

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.

The third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York State.
Category: Health.

A pioneering Presbyterian missionary abolitionist who contributed to fighting girls trade in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Category: Activism & Feminism.