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Catherine Talty Kenny
Catherine Talty Kenny


Catherine Talty Kenny was a Tennessee suffragist and political organizer. Born in 1874 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Kenny grew up poor with five siblings and a widowed mother who worked as a seamstress to support the family. Bouncing from one tenement apartment to another, Kenny was eventually sent to a Catholic high school, but only attended one semester. She worked odd jobs for the next ten years to support herself and her family. In 1899, she married John M. Kenny, an ambitious coffee salesman turned Coca-Cola franchise owner. The couple had […]
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Patrisse Khan-Cullors


Patrisse Khan-Cullors is an artist, activist and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Khan-Cullors first used the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after co-founder Alicia Garza's use of the phrase "Black Lives Matter" in a Facebook post about the Trayvon Martin case. Khan-Cullors was born in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. A Fulbright scholar, she earned a degree in religion and philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. Khan-Cullors has served as executive director of the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails and co-founded the prison activism […]
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King


American tennis player, activist, and world leader in the world of sports, Bille Jean King was one of the greatest female tennis champions of all time, winning 67 professional titles, including 20 titles at Wimbledon. King was the first player to lobby for, and attain, equal prize money for women within sports competitions. King was one of the founders of the Women's Tennis Association and the Women’s Sports Foundation. Her accomplishments include being the first female sports commissioner in history, the first woman to have a major sports venue named […]
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King


Coretta Scott King was an author, activist, and civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. She helped lead the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. King was born in Heiberger, Alabama, and raised on her parent's farm in Perry County, Alabama. She was exposed at an early age to the injustices of life in a segregated society. She walked five miles a day to attend the one-room Crossroads School in Marion, Alabama, while the white students rode buses to an all-white school closer by. She excelled […]
Amy Kremer
Amy Kremer


Amy Kremer is a political activist and former chairwoman of the Tea Party Express. She campaigned as part of the Tea Party Express from 2009 to 2014. During the 2016 presidential election, she was the co-founder of two political action committees supporting Donald Trump’s campaign. In 2017, she unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 6th District. Kremer attended Auburn University. She then worked for Delta Air Lines as a flight attendant, but gave up her job to focus on raising her daughter. She became politically active […]
María Teresa Kumar
María Teresa Kumar


María Teresa Kumar is the founding president and CEO of Voto Latino. Under her leadership, Voto Latino has registered over a quarter million voters. Kumar was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1974, emigrating to the United States with her family when she was four years old and growing up in Sonoma, California. She received a Bachelor of Arts in international relations from the University of California, Davis and a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Between degrees, she worked as […]
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke


Winona LaDuke is a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, politician and writer. She was executive director of Honor the Earth, an organization she co-founded in 1993, from 1993-2023, and was the founder and executive director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project until 2014. In 1996 and 2000, she ran for vice president of the United States as the nominee of the Green Party with Ralph Nader. LaDuke was born on August 18, 1959, in Los Angeles, California. Her father, an activist and actor, was an Ojibwe from White Earth […]
Beverly LaHaye
Beverly LaHaye


Beverly LaHaye was a Christian conservative activist and author who founded Concerned Women for America. CWA was originally intended to be a local group, but it went nationwide in two years. It calls itself “the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization devoted to biblical principles.” LaHaye was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 30, 1929. She attended Bob Jones University where she met her husband, Tim LaHaye. They were married in 1947 and had four children. LaHaye wrote "The Spirit-Controlled Woman" in 1976 as a companion to her husband’s book […]
Harriet Burton Laidlaw
Harriet Burton Laidlaw


Harriet Burton Laidlaw was a New York suffragist, reformer, and peace activist. Laidlaw was born on December 16, 1873 in Albany, New York. When she was six, her father died and the family moved in with his parents. She completed both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in pedagogy and taught public school in New York City. She received various degrees from Barnard College, Illinois Wesleyan University and Columbia University, while also taking courses at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. In 1905, she left teaching to marry James Lees Laidlaw, […]
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin


Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin was a suffragist, civil rights activist and community organizer. Born on August 9, 1883, to a working class African American family in Washington, D.C., Lampkin got her start organizing consumer protest groups made up of Black housewives in Pittsburgh. In 1915, she was elected president of the Lucy Stone Woman Suffrage League, a Pittsburgh-based organization dedicated to advocating suffrage for Black women. After representing the League at a conference of the National Association of Colored Women in 1916, Lampkin served as national organizer and chairman of […]