A nurse, social reformer, suffragist, peace and civil rights activist. The founder of the Henry Street Settlement and several health organizations in the US.
Category: Health, Activism & Feminism.
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Adelina Otero-Warren, 1881-1965
A suffrage leader, educator, and politician. The first Latina to run for US Congress and one of the first’s women to serve as a government official in New Mexico.
Category: Academy & Education, Activism & Feminism, Politics & Leaders. -
Clara Shortridge Foltz, 1849-1934
The first female lawyer on the west coast, a public defender pioneer, an editor, and a suffrage leader.
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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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Frances Perkins, 1880-1965
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. -
Louise DeKoven Bowen, 1859-1953
A philanthropist, civic and suffrage leader, social reformer, and an advocate for the Juvenile Protective Association and its first president.
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Mary Richardson Jones, 1820-1910
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.
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Lucy Burns, 1879-1966
A suffrage leader and the co-founder of the National Woman’s Party.
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Inez Milholland Boissevain, 1886-1916
Suffragist, social reformer, and labor lawyer.
Category: Law, Activism & Feminism, Politics & Leaders. -
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.
Category: Health, Activism & Feminism, Media, Politics & Leaders.