Albion Fellows Bacon
American reformer who secured for Indiana a tenement-house law
Category Archives: Writer
Continue reading
Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Journalist, short-story writer, and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938).
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
American novelist, poet and essayist
Anne Lynch Botta
American author and sculptor
Amy Lowell
American poet and critic
Celia Thaxter
American poet
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon is a renowned composer, historian, musician, and activist. She is also credited with founding Sweet Honey in the Rock, an all-female and all-Black acapella group. Much of her work centers Black identity and social justice and many of her musical projects highlight the Civil Rights Era.
Loretta Ross
Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Most notably, she is a cofounder of SisterSong and Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, served as a previous Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, and is one of twelve women credited with coining the phrase and framework “reproductive justice.”
Ophelia Settle Egypt
Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. However, she was also critical in preserving the histories of formerly enslaved African Americans in the early twentieth century, fighting against preventable ailments in Black communities across the country, and for authoring a children’s book.