Politics Archives - Page 9 of 56

Elizabeth Fisher Read

Scholar and one of Eleanor Roosevelt’s earliest female political and feminist mentors

Frances Perkins

American workers-rights advocate, first women in the US Cabinet, fourth US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.

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.

Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin

American suffragist and writer

Cecilia Cruz Bamba

Chamorro woman orphaned at the age of nine during the Japanese attacks on Guam in 1941. Motivated by the grandmother who raised her, Bamba became a senator, businesswoman, and community leader.

Florence Luscomb

Participating in women’s rights, civil rights, labor, and peace movements throughout the 1900s, Florence Luscomb embodied what it means to be an activist.