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Abigail Foster
Fighting for women’s rights soon became a new priority for many ultra abolitionists and Kelley was among them speaking on women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York five years before the Seneca Falls convention would be held there.[12] Kelley influenced future suffragists -
Miltilda Gage
Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression".[1][2] -
Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet was the first African American female principal in the New York public schools. The eldest of eleven children, she was born Minsarah Smith in Brooklyn in 1831. -
Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull was a clairvoyant, a businesswoman and an advocate for women's rights and sexual freedom -
Amelia Bloomer
Amelia Bloomer edited the womans righta paper The Lilly, propagandist, lectured on temperance and woman's rights in Midwest, worked for suffrage legislation in Nebraska 1856 and Iowa. -
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was a prominent abolitionist and women's rights activist. Born a slave in New York State, she had at least three of her children sold away from her. After escaping slavery, Truth embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. -
Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Shaw was a Women's Christian Temperance Union organizer and speaker, outstanding suffrage orator for 30 years, National American Woman Suffrage Association president 1904-1915, and chaired Woman's Committee of the US Council of National Defense during WWI -
Alice Stone Blackwell
Alice Blackwell merged two rival sufferage groups into the National American Woman Suffrage Association, became recording secretary, lectured, and translated Russian, Armenian, Yiddish and other oppressed peoples' poetry. -
Marry Garrett Hay
Marry Garrett Hay was a suffrage organizer and temperance reformer, organized precincts in 1896 California campaign and directed NYC suffrage campaigns 1915 & 1917, -
Alice Stokes Paul
Alice Paul was chief strategist for the militant suffrage wing, founder of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party, and author of the Equal Rights Amendment -
Mabel Vernon
Mabel Vernon was a fundraiser, speaker, interrupted Wilson's speech in 1916, and supported Equal Rights Amendment and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. -
Daisy Adams Lampkin
Daisy Lampkin was civil rights reformer, community leader, promoted interest in suffrage among Black women in Pittsburgh, president of Negro Women's Franchise League 1915, active organizer with NAACP and National Association of Colored Women -
Crystal Eastman
Managed Wisconsin's woman's sufferage campaige and organized a NY Feminist Congress demanding equality. -
Maud Wood Park
Maud Wood Park was a organizer, civic leader, speaker, powerful National American Woman Suffrage Association lobbyist for 19th Amendment, and first president of League of Women Voters -
Lucy Burns
most significant leaders of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. She was arrested six times in the U.S., and spent more time in prison than any other suffragist. -
Rose Schneiderman
Rose Schneiderman was a labor organizer and speaker with the Women's Trade Union League and International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
