Eliza Scidmore
Eliza Scidmore traveled through Alaska’s Inside Passage in 1883. Her articles and travel logs shared the grandeur and adventure of Alaska with western tourists, ushering in a new era of travel and tourism to the Alaska territory.
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Agnes Baker-Pilgrim
Before her death in 2019 at age 95, Agnes Baker-Pilgrim was the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe. Better known as Grandma Aggie, Baker-Pilgrim was deeply committed to her role as a tribal elder. She mentored Indigenous youth in Oregon while traveling the world well into her eighties as an activist for Indigenous and environmental rights.
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.
Juanita J Craft
Juanita Jewel Craft was an American civil rights advocate and politician.
Rose Schneiderman
Rose Schneiderman’s fierce advocacy for women and workers earned her a reputation as “a tiny, red-haired bundle of social dynamite.” She was a leading voice in the trade union movement for over fifty years, organizing on the shop floor, the street corner, and in the halls of Congress and the White House.
Rosika Schwimmer
Rosika Schwimmer was a Hungarian peace activist, suffragist, and feminist.
Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.
Dr Katie John
In 2019, the Alaska State Legislature designated May 31st as an official state holiday in honor of Dr Katie John for her contributions in defense of Alaska Native customary and traditional hunting, fishing, and gathering rights.
Zerelda Sanders Wallace
First Lady of Indiana from 1837 to 1840, and a temperance activist, women’s suffrage leader, and inspirational speaker in the 1870s and 1880s.
Sarah Winnemucca
Winnemucca worked as both an interpreter and negotiator between American Indian tribes and the U.S. Army during the “Indian wars” that occured throughout the American West in the decades after the Civil War.