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Lenora B Fulani
Lenora B Fulani


Lenora Branch Fulani is an American psychologist, psychotherapist and political activist. In the 1988 presidential election, she became the first woman and the first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and received more votes for president in a U.S. general election than any other woman before her. Fulani was born on April 25, 1950 in Chester, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Hofstra University in 1971, earned a master's degree from Columbia University's Teachers College, and earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the City University of […]
Frances D Gage
Frances D Gage


Frances D. Gage was a leading activist in the anti-slavery, woman's rights and temperance movements in the United States. Gage was born on October 12, 1808 in Marietta, Ohio. On January 1, 1829, she married James L. Gage, an abolitionist lawyer who supported her activism throughout their marriage. Gage was among the first to support voting rights for all citizens without regard to race or gender, and she supported suffrage for newly freed African American women along with the men during the Reconstruction. In 1851, her introduction of Sojourner Truth […]
Matilda J Gage
Matilda J Gage


Matilda Joslyn Gage, suffragist and writer, was born in Cicero, New York, on March 24, 1826. Gage's father provided her early education, which included mathematics, Greek, and biology, after which she attended the Clinton Liberal Institute in New York. She married Henry H. Gage, a merchant, in 1845; they had five children, although one son died in infancy. The couple later moved to Syracuse and Manlius before finally settling in Fayetteville, New York. Gage's activism in women's rights began at the National Woman's Rights Convention in Syracuse in September 1852. […]
Helen Hamilton Gardener
Helen Hamilton Gardener


Helen Hamilton Gardener was an author, suffragist and civil service official. Gardener was born as Alice Chenoweth on January 21, 1853, in Winchester, Virginia, and grew up in Washington, D.C., Indiana and Ohio. She graduated from Cincinnati Normal School in 1873, and worked as a teacher for two years until her marriage to Charles Smart, the school commissioner of Ohio. They moved to New York City in 1880, where she lectured on sociology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and wrote for local newspapers under several masculine pseudonyms. […]
Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza


Alicia Garza is an activist, editorial writer and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Garza was born on January 4, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. She graduated with a degree in anthropology and sociology at the University of California in San Diego in 2002. On February 26, 2012, when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by neighborhood security guard George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, Garza first used the phrase “Black Lives Matter” on Facebook. In 2013 she, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors officially created the Black Lives Matter Movement, and […]
Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee


Leymah Gbowee is a social worker, peace activist, and co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakel Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." Gbowee was born on February 1, 1972, in Monrovia, Liberia. At the end of the First Liberian Civil War (1989-1996), Gbowee participated in a program run by UNICEF to train people in social work to counsel victims of war that opened her eyes to her own abuse by […]
Edna Fischel Gellhorn
Edna Fischel Gellhorn


Edna Fischel Gellhorn was a Missouri suffragist, reformer and philanthropist. Born in St. Louis in 1878, Gellhorn became involved in the Missouri suffrage campaign in 1910, serving in the St. Louis and Missouri Equal Suffrage Leagues and helping to organize suffrage demonstrations. In 1919, Gellhorn cast the deciding vote to open up the St. Louis Equal Suffrage League to African Americans. Gellhorn’s most famous accomplishment was a 1916 demonstration known as the “Golden Lane,” where thousands of suffragists, clad in “suffrage yellow,” lined the streets and distracted from the Democratic […]
Lois Gibbs
Lois Gibbs


Lois Gibbs is an American environmental activist leading the Love Canal homeowners' movement, which exposed hazardous waste contamination in Niagara Falls, New York, and sparked national reform in toxic waste policy. Gibbs was a New York homemaker who became an environmental leader after discovering that her neighborhood was built atop a toxic waste dump. 1978 she founded the Love Canal Homeowners Association, organizing residents to demand relocation and government accountability. Through persistent advocacy, including her 1979 testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, played a pivotal role […]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a lecturer, writer, economist and leading theorist of the women’s movement in the United States. Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. Her paternal great-grandfather was Calvinist preacher Dr. Lyman Beecher and her great-aunts were novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, women's education advocate Catherine Beecher, and suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker. Gilman's father abandoned the family, leaving them in poverty. Although Gilman received little formal education, she did attend the Rhode Island School of Design for two years. In 1884 she married artist Charles W. […]
Elizabeth Glaser
Elizabeth Glaser


Elizabeth Glaser was an AIDS activist who contracted HIV in a blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth to her daughter, Ariel. She learned of her infection in 1985, and that she had passed the virus on to Ariel through breast milk and to her son Jake, born in 1984, in utero. Ariel died in 1988 and Elizabeth died in 1994. Jake has survived into adulthood. When seeking treatment for their daughter, Glaser and her husband, actor and director Paul Michael Glaser, discovered that no AIDS drugs had yet been […]