A Catholic human rights activist, pacifist, and journalist. The co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Religion & Ethnic Culture, Media.
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Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893
Abolitionist, suffragist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. The first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.
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Ellen Lawson Dabbs, 1853-1908
A writer, women’s rights activist, one of the first female physicians in Texas, and one of the Texas Equal Rights Association’s founders.
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Margaret Mitchell, 1900-1949
Pulitzer Prize-winner novelist and journalist, the author of the novel “Gone with the Wind.”
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Xernona Clayton, 1930
A civil rights activist and broadcasting executive. The first African-American to host a TV show in the South.
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Gloria Steinem, 1934
A feminist leader, journalist, editor, social-political activist, and a spokeswoman for the American Feminist Movement.
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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. -
Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1826-1898
An author, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, and a Native-American rights activist.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Media. -
Amelia Bloomer, 1818-1894
Suffragist, temperance advocate, writer, publicist, and promoter of women’s dress reform. The first woman to own, edit and operate a newspaper for women.
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1862-1931
A suffragist, an investigative reporter, and a pioneering researcher on racial violence.
Category: Media, Activism & Feminism.