Betty Reid Soskin
Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.
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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.
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore
Civil rights leader who pioneered efforts to integrate her state’s schools, housing, and public accommodations and to pass civil rights legislation enforcing such integration.
Adella Hunt Logan
Suffragist and the second woman to join the faculty of Tuskegee University.
Emma Tenayuca
Emma Tenayuca was a Mexican-American labor organizer and civil rights activist who led strikes by women workers in Texas in the 1930s.
Dawn Langley Simmons
One of the first individuals to receive gender-affirming surgery in the United States, Simmons was also well-known in Charleston society for her marriage to John Paul Simmons. Theirs was reportedly the first documented interracial marriage in South Carolina.
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.
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.
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.