Tag: Abolitionist

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.

A suffrage leader, most famous for her contribution to the passing of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.
Category: Activism & Feminism.

An author and an abolitionist, best known for her anti-slavery novel ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin.’
Category: Literature & Poetry.

A 19th century independent "New Woman", poet and a sculptress, known for statues that reflect her political and social views as an abolitionist and women’s rights advocate.
Category: Literature & Poetry, Arts.

A famous speaker and activist for racial and gender equality.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Religion & Ethnic Culture.