By Lisa Giordano of Virginia NOW A dedicated activist who helped forge change in America’s political and economic inequalities, Dr. Caroline E. Spencer was born in Philadelphia in 1861. Following her 1880 graduation from the Philadelphia Normal School for Girls with the Mrs. Hannah M. Dodd Medal of Merit, she Read more
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A lifelong women’s rights advocate, author, and friend of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage was born to physician Hezekiah and Helen Leslie in Cicero, New York. The daughter of a nationally known abolitionist, she was raised in a household dedicated to eradicating slavery and grew up Read more
Organizer, writer, speaker and early supporter of a movement that would become the NAACP, Mary Morris Burnett was born in Oberlin, Ohio, to Cornelius and Caroline Nicholls Burnett. The only African-American woman in her graduating class at Oberlin College, she assumed a teaching position at Bethel University in Read more
A national and state leader in the women’s suffrage movement, Anne Dallas was the daughter of a prominent Nashville family. She attended Ward Seminary High School and Price’s College in Nashville before marrying Guilford Dudley, who founded an insurance company in Nashville. The couple raised their family at Read more
Although Frances Willard was known for her leadership in the temperance movement, she was also a prominent suffragist and social progressive who battled against gender inequality and fought to give a voice to society’s disenfranchised. Lifting her own strong voice against the status quo, she forever changed Read more
The daughter of leading African-American abolitionists James and Charlotte Forten, Harriet Forten Purvis was a powerful 19th century voice for equal rights for all—including women. Harriett Forten married Robert Purvis in 1832 and made a home for their children in Philadelphia, where both Harriett and Robert led Read more
Born into wealth and privilege in New York City in 1819, Julia Ward was a self-educated woman whose modern (considered by some to be radical) ideas clashed with those of her puritanical Calvinist father, Samuel Ward. Although restrained by her father, her status as a wealthy heiress gave her access to Read more
Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, talked about the status of her personal tax revolt tonight, and gave out a copy of the letter she recently sent to suffrage advocates around the country asking them to join her in refusing "taxation without representation." Read more
Another sign today that at long last, victory in the generations-long struggle for woman suffrage is in sight. Carrie Chapman Catt has issued a call for the final annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which will be held at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, February 12th to 18th. Read more
A noble, but ultimately unsuccessful effort today to get the New York County Medical Society to call for changing the State's present anti-birth-control law, which, except under very specific circumstances, makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for anyone to give out information on contraception, or birth Read more