Esther Hobart Morris was the first woman to serve as Justice of the Peace in the United States. She was appointed justice of South Pass City, Wyoming after the previous justice resigned in protest after Wyoming Territory passed a woman suffrage amendment in December 1869.
Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. Stewart was one of the first women of any race to speak in public in the United States. She was also the first Black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto.
She joined with other Richmond Unionists to create an underground network to hinder the Confederate war effort and give aid and comfort to captured Union soldiers during the United States’ Civil War.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.
Author of the autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” The book, now an “American classic,” gives a plain account of the horrors of slavery and her path to freedom.
Britihs activist, novelist and poet
Born into slavery, she gained her freedom in the early 19th century and became a pioneering figure in American history.
American suffragist and abolitionist, best known for being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1858.
Pivotal figure in the American abolitionist movement.
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.