I admit to not knowing all of them. (I've used * to designate who I'm looking up)
But I have also added a few of my own.
How about you?
- Abigail Adams
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner Truth
- Phillis Wheatley * (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first published African-American female poet
- Sacajawea
- Deborah Sampson Gannett * (December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827), better known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
- Admiral Grace Hopper
- Clara Barton
- Ada Lovelace * Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is sometimes regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of a "computing machine" and the first computer programmer
- Ida B. Wells *(July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).[1] She arguably became the most famous black woman in America, during a life that was centered on combating prejudice and violence.[2]
- Alice Paul * (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
- Beatrice Wood - potter
- Maria Martinez - original potter to carve black on black designs at San Isle defonso Mesa, AZ
- Joan Baez
- Lucretia Mott
- Vicki Lane, mystery and blog writer
- Lucy Stone
- Madam CJ Walker
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Martha Nussbaum * (born 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department.
- Theda Skocpol *(born May 4, 1947) is an American sociologist and political scientist, who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. An influential figure in both disciplines, Skocpol is best known as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches, as well as her "state autonomy theory."
- Amelia Earhart
- Jeanette Rankin
- Frances Perkins
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Mother Jones
- Margaret Sanger
- Rosa Parks
- Barbara Jordan
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Dorothy Height *(March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an Americanadministrator and educator who worked as a civil rights and women's rights activist, specifically focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.[1] She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004
- Shirley Chisholm
- Angela Davis
- Mary Anne Shadd Cary *(October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first Black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.[1]
- Emily Dickenson
- Mae Jemison * (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physicianand NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she served as an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. After graduating medical school and a brief general practice, Jemison served in the Peace Corpsfrom 1985 until 1987. In 1987 her application to become an astronaut was accepted by NASA and on September 12, 1992 she was a mission specialist aboard STS-47. In 1993 she resigned from NASA and founded a company researching the application of technology to daily life.
- Sally Ride
- Sandra Day O’Connor
- Geraldine Ferraro
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Nancy Pelosi
- Kamala Harris
- Betty Friedan
- Robin Morgan *(born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor.
- Gloria Steinem
- Shulamith Firestone *(January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012)[2] was a Canadian-American radical feminist.
- Tracy Chapman
- Dolores Huerta *(born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leaderand civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW)
- Billie Jean King
- Maya Angelou
- Toni Morrison
- Mary Elizabeth Bowser *(originally Mary Jane Richards, 1846 – 1867) was a Union spy during the Civil War.[2] She was an American former slave and worked in connection with Elizabeth Van Lew.[3]
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Maya Lin
- Janelle Monae *
- Nina Simone
- Rachel Carson
- Malala Yousafzai
- Tarana Burke *
- Katherine Johnson *
- Katharine Graham *
- Bella Abzug
- bell hooks *
- Amy Ray *
- Emily Saliers *
- Carolyn Shoemaker *
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Jane Addams
- Elizabeth Blackwell *
- Dorothea Dix
- Isadora Duncan
- Marie LaVeau *
- Ava DuVernay *
- Nichelle Nichols *
- Leslie Feinberg *
- Byron Balard
- Queen Liliuokalani
- Cathay Williams *
- Victoria Woodhull
- Adelaid Alsop Robineau
- hecatedemeter
- Georgia O’Keefe
- Judy Chicago
- Shannon Watts *
- Emma Gonzalez
- Mari Copeny *
- Mary Caroline Richards
- Anita Cameron *
There are names on this list that I've never heard of, but now will do a little online research. I love seeing the name Shirley Chisholm here. I got to take a six week summer course at the university with her in the mid 1980s. I loved her beyond words.
ReplyDeleteRobin, I'd love to know who you'd add to this list yourself. I admit a couple who are influential friends. And a couple who were/are potters. Most people won't know them.
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