Abby Kelley
Abby Kelley was an abolitionist and an early women’s rights advocate. Devoting her life to creating a more equitable society, she used her skills as a lecturer and educator to advocate for the rights of African Americans and women.
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Florida Ruffin Ridley
While Florida Ruffin Ridley followed in the footsteps of her mother, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, she paved her own way as a writer, activist, and community leader.
Katharine Wright
Often ignored in the histories, the third Wright sibling was vital to her brothers’ success
Dr Matilda Chaplin Ayrton
1800s British doctor
Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett
Suffragist and member of the Hawaiian royal family
Anita Pollitzer
American suffragist
Alice Nugent
Like her sister Georgia, Alice Nugent played an active role in Black women’s clubs and other civic organizations in Kentucky. Both Alice and Georgia were founding members of Louisville’s Women’s Improvement Club (WIC).
Charlotte Forten Grimke
Prominent abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. During the Civil War, Forten taught newly freed African-Americans on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Her writings and poetry showed her commitment to battling racial and gender inequality.
Adella Hunt Logan
Suffragist and the second woman to join the faculty of Tuskegee University.
Esther Hobart Morris
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.