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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 for the Tea Party movement. 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 in the Tea […]
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, a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, politician and writer, is the executive director of Honor the Earth, an organization she co-founded in 1993, 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 Reservation in Minnesota. […]
Beverly LaHaye
Beverly LaHaye


Beverly LaHaye is 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 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 […]
Clara Chan Lee
Clara Chan Lee


Clara Chan Lee was a Chinese-American suffragist, women’s rights activist, and community leader. Born on October 21, 1886, in Portland, Oregon, to the Rev. Chan Hon Fun and Ow Muck Gay, both Chinese immigrants, Clara moved to Oakland, California, with her parents in the early twentieth century. She eventually married Charles Goodall Lee, the first licensed Chinese-American dentist in the United States. After California passed woman suffrage in 1911, Lee, along with Emma Tom Leung, became the first Chinese-American woman to register to vote that same year. Tye Leung Schulze […]
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee


Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was a Chinese-American suffragist, economist and community leader. Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1896, Lee immigrated to the U.S. on an academic scholarship at the age of 9. Starting in her teens, Lee became an active figure in the New York suffrage movement. In 1912, Lee, on horseback, helped lead a suffrage parade of 10,000 people, for which she was written about by both the New York Tribune and New York Times. The same year, Lee entered Barnard College, joined the Chinese Students’ Association, and wrote […]
Belva Lockwood
Belva Lockwood


Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood was an American attorney, politician, educator, suffragist and author. One of the first female lawyers in the United States, Lockwood successfully petitioned Congress in 1879 to be allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the first woman attorney with this privilege. She ran for president in 1884 and 1888 as the nominee for the Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots. Lockwood was born October 24, 1830, in Royalton, New York. In 1848, she married Uriah McNall, their […]