Tag: Suffragist

Educator, attorney, politician, author, a champion of women's rights, and peacemaker. One of the first female lawyers in the US and the first woman to officially run for president.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Law, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.

A famous opera singer and suffragist, the first American woman to achieve international recognition during the “Golden Age” of Opera.
Category: Music, Activism & Feminism.

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

Suffragist, temperance advocate, writer, publicist, and promoter of women’s dress reform. The first woman to own, edit and operate a newspaper for women.
Category: Media, Activism & Feminism.

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 suffragist, an investigative reporter, and a pioneering researcher on racial violence.
Category: Media, Activism & Feminism.

An important financial supporter of the US suffrage movement, and president of the National Woman's Party (1921-1933).
Category: Activism & Feminism, Philanthropy.

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

A pioneering female doctor and educator of female physicians.
Category: Health, Activism & Feminism.