Biographies

Elizabeth Cochrane was one of the most famous journalists in the United States.

A hero of the American Revolution, Margaret Cochran Corbin was the first woman to receive a military pension.

Prudence Crandall bravely defied prevailing patterns of racial discrimination when she opened one of the first schools for African American girls in Connecticut in 1833.

Ann Pamela Cunningham was an early leader in historic preservation and is often credited with saving President George Washington’s estate Mount Vernon.

Lydia Darragh was a Patriot spy during the American Revolution.

Amelia Earhart was a record-breaking female aviator whose international fame paved the way for other female pilots.

Mary Baker Eddy founded a popular religious movement during the 19th century, Christian Science.

Journalist, activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan was one of the early leaders of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Although raised on a slave-owning plantation, Angelina Grimké Weld became an ardent abolitionist.

Sarah Josepha Hale is best known for creating the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Her influence can also be seen in historic sites and a national holiday still widely celebrated today.

Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements .

Nancy Hart made it her mission to rid the Georgia territory of British Loyalists.

Dorothy Height was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper helped to outline the fundamental operating principles of computing machines.

Julia Ward Howe was a writer, lecturer, abolitionist and suffragist.

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century.

Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist.

Considered one of the earliest American feminists, Anne Hutchinson was a spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who challenged male authority.

Claudia Johnson, known as “Lady Brid Johnson” was an environmentalist, businesswoman, political activist, and First Lady.

Female labor activist “Mother Jones” was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser”.