Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett
Suffragist and member of the Hawaiian royal family
Category Archives: Activism > Suffrage
Continue reading
Anita Pollitzer
American suffragist
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was one of the most visible Progressive reformers of the early twentieth century United States.