Adolphine Fletcher Terry was a civic-minded woman from a prominent Little Rock, Arkansas family who used her position to improve schools and libraries, start a juvenile court system, provide affordable housing, promote the education of women and women’s rights, and challenge the racism of the Old South.
Alice Sankey Ellington was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement in Arkansas, an officer of the Southern States Woman Suffrage Association, a war worker during World War I, and a frequent campaigner for suffrage across the country.
In May 1966, Carolyn Jean Green was one of the first two African American students to graduate from what is now Ouachita Baptist University (OBU).
Lesbian journalist who was part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s inner circle
Libyan architect
The U.S. Supreme Court landmark case Katzenbach V. Morgan (1966) addressed the constitutionality of section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which held that no state shall impede suffrage to individuals lacking English language literacy.
Afghan-American football player and activist
In 1970, 60 women employees of Newsweek sued the magazine. Female researchers accused male writers and editors of taking credit for their work, including Lynn Povich, who later wrote a book about the experience, Good Girls Revolt.
Professor Lea Puymbroeck Miller became a symbol of [the impact of anti-nepotism rules on women’s careers] in 1938.
Photographer Lynn Goldsmith fought her copyright claim against Warhol’s estate (the Andy Warhol Foundation) all the way to the Supreme Court – and won.