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.
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Mary Richardson Jones, 1820-1910
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.
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Kathleen Cleaver, 1945
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. -
Katherine Dunham, 1909-2006
A famous and influential dancer and choreographer, known as “the mother of black dance.”
Category: Arts, Theater & Cinema, Academy & Education, Activism & Feminism. -
Elizabeth Jennings Graham, 1827-1901
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. -
Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1826-1898
An author, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, and a Native-American rights activist.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Media. -
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. -
Susan Smith McKinney Steward, 1847-1918
The third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York State.
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Donaldina Cameron, 1869-1968
A pioneering Presbyterian missionary abolitionist who contributed to fighting girls trade in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Category: Activism & Feminism. -
Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906
A suffrage leader, most famous for her contribution to the passing of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.
Category: Activism & Feminism.