Physician, nurse, and author. The first African-American woman physician in the US. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born as Rebecca Davis Read more...

A neoclassical sculptress and the first American woman to achieve international recognition as a professional sculptor. Harriet Hosmer was born Read more...

A writer, a poet, an editor, and a women’s rights advocate. Known for authoring the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Read more...

Marathon runner, author, and television commentator; the first woman to officially run in the Boston Marathon. Kathrine Virginia “Kathy” Switzer Read more...

Journalist, critic, editor, translator, and women’s and civil rights advocate. The first female book reviewer in the US. Born as Read more...

Poet, author, lecturer, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, co-founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), and one of the initiators Read more...

A woman warrior of the American Revolutionary War, fought for the Patriot forces while disguised as a man. Sampson was Read more...

An award-winning American poet, essayist, and feminist thought influencer, who was called “one of the most widely read and influential Read more...

A sculptress and poet, famous for creating the Boston Women’s Memorial and for her contribution to the regeneration of public Read more...

The first female governor of Massachusetts and the youngest female Governor in US history. Jane Swift is Massachusettsian from birth. Read more...