Tag: Suffragist

The first female lawyer on the west coast, a public defender pioneer, an editor, and a suffrage leader.
Category: Law, Activism & Feminism.

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.

A workers-rights advocate, the 4th US Secretary of Labor, the first woman in this position, the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, and the first woman to serve in a Presidential cabinet.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.

A philanthropist, civic and suffrage leader, social reformer, and an advocate for the Juvenile Protective Association and its first president.
Category: Activism & Feminism.

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.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Philanthropy.

A suffrage leader and the co-founder of the National Woman’s Party.
Category: Activism & Feminism.

Suffragist, social reformer, and labor lawyer.
Category: Law, Activism & Feminism, Politics & Leaders.

A writer, women’s rights activist, one of the first female physicians in Texas, and one of the Texas Equal Rights Association’s founders.
Category: Health, Activism & Feminism, Media, Politics & Leaders.

A women’s suffrage leader, an author, and the longest-serving Secretary of State of Texas.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Activism & Feminism.

Suffragist and civil rights activist, one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and the first African-American woman in the US to serve in a school board of a major city.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.