335: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett Journalist, Researcher, and Activist Born: 16 July 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States of America Died: 25 March 1931, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Born into slavery, Ida was left in charge of her younger siblings after her parents were killed in a yellow fever epidemic when she was a…
“Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard’s fate!” 229: Carry Nation Professional Vandalizer Born: 25 November 1846, Garrard County, Kentucky, United States of America Died: 9 June 1911, Leavenworth, Kentucky, United States of America Alternate Name: Carrie Nation Carry was a temperance advocate famous for using a hatchet to smash up saloons…
“Life is what you make it.” “Excite the mind and the hand will reach for the pocket.” https://youtu.be/MziJW0Ox2H0 138) Harry Gordon Selfridge Founder of Selfridges, a London Based Department Store Born: 11 January 1858, Ripon, Wisconsin, United States of America Died: 8 May 1947, London, United Kingdom Harry became known as the Earl of Oxford…
103) Alice Sanger The first female staffer to serve in the White House Birth and Death Dates Unknown, as is place of Origin She was hired by the Harrison Administration in 1890. It is believed today that her appointment into the White House was Harrison’s way of acknowledging the women’s suffrage movement gaining momentum in…
101) Nancy Astor The First Female MP Elected and Able to Take Her Seat in British Parliament Born: 19 May 1879, Danville, Virginia, United States of America Died: 2 May 1964, Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Nancy served in the House of Commons starting in 1919 (she was replacing her husband who had been the previous…
88) Helen Keller Advocate and Educator who Rose Above Being Deaf and Blind to Become Internationally Celebrated Born: 27 June 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States of America Died: 1 June 1968, Easton, Connecticut, United States of America She was also a co-founder of the ACLU. When Helen was nineteen months old, she became ill—most likely…
86) Millicent Fawcett Suffragette and Feminist Born: 11 June 1847, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom Died: 5 August 1929, London, United Kingdom For fifty years she was one of the leaders of the Suffrage Movement in the United Kingdom. She also alienated other Suffragettes because she did not condone the violence of Emmeline Pankhurst—a fellow suffragette who…
“Marriage, to women as to men must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord women equal power.” 85) Susan B Anthony Social Advocate and One of the Most Famous Supporters of Women’s Suffrage Born: 15…
83) Olympe de Gouges French Feminist and Social Reformer Born: 7 May 1748, Montauban, France Died: 3 November 1793, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France Original Name: Marie Gouze Olympe married once and had a son but after her husband’s death she vowed never to marry again. Her activism worked in everything from road improvement…