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Mary Bethune
Mary Bethune (1875-1955), the daughter of slaves, opened the first
school for Black girls which later merged with an all men's college.
Bethune-Cookman College is located in Daytona, Florida. She was a
national education advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt.
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton
Susan B Anthony (1820-1906) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) were instrumental in
calling the first Woman’s Rights Convention, which was held in 1847 in
Seneca Falls, New York. and were the co-founders of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born a slave and although she could neither
read nor write, she became a famous traveling preacher speaking
about women's rights and abolition.
She is well known for her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) opened the nation's first birth control clinic in 1916.
500 women visited the office in just 10 days.
But Sanger was found guilty of "maintaining a public nuisance" and jailed for a month,
becoming a national heroine to many women. In 1921, she took
her campaign nationwide by launching the American Birth Control League.
Subsequently reorganized as the Planned Parenthood Federation.
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The Pink Fist
The Pink Fist came out of the radical feminist movement of the 1960s and 70s.
It combines the uplifted fist from the Black liberation and Anti-war movements
with the Women's symbol.
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Suffragist
Suffragist, circa 1920.
If the history of the suffrage movement was better known,
we would understand that democracy, for the first 150 years of
our nation's existence, excluded more than half of the population.
The 19th Amendment was eventually passed in 1920.
Women vote and actively participate in all levels
of government today because of the hard struggles of the suffragists.
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Alice Paul
Alice Paul (1885-1977) founded the National Women's Party,
which she lead for the next 30 years.
After ratification of the Suffrage Amendment in 1920, she worked for women's
equality worldwide. She authored the Equal Rights
Amendment in 1923 and worked for its passage for the rest of her life.
The ERA has once more been reintroduced in Congress, March 2001.
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Matilda Josalyn Gage
Matilda Josalyn Gage (1826-1898) formed the
Woman's National Liberal Union (1890) to preserve the First Amendment principle of
the separation of
church and state.
Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote a number of books including "Woman, Church,
and State" and "Woman as Inventor." She collaborated with Susan B. Anthony
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the three volume "History
of Woman Suffrage" which was completed in 1887.
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Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) Was the first woman to run for president,
sharing the ballot with Frederick Douglass. She was the first woman to
address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. Image copyrighted by
Mary L. Shearer www.victoria-woodhull.com.
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