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Nancy Morton

Enslaved woman who fought a legal battle for her freedom

Martha Coffin Pelham Wright

One of five women who planned the women’s right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, she presided over numerous women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions.

Mary McCracken

Irish radical and philanthropist

Anna Murray Douglass

American abolitionist and wife of Frederick Douglass

Caroline M Severance

1800s feminist activist in Cleveland, known as America’s first clubwoman

Hannah Maria Conant Tracy Cutler

President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association and the American Women’s Suffrage Association, as well as an abolitionist and a leader of the temperance movement in Ohio

Graceanna Lewis

American ornithologist, illustrator, and activist in the anti-slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage movements.

Jennie Collins

In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.

Judith Winsor Smith

Spending seven decades at the center of the Boston suffrage movement, Judith Winsor Smith proudly claimed, “I believed in suffrage before there was such a word in the dictionary.”

Rebecca Buffum Spring

New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.