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Flora Dunlap
Flora Dunlap


Flora Dunlap was a social worker and suffragist in Iowa. Dunlap was born on February 27, 1872, in Pickaway County, Ohio. She graduated from Cincinnati Wesleyan College. The following year, she served an apprenticeship at the Kingsley Settlement House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Following the apprenticeship, she spent a winter in the Goodrich House in Cleveland, Ohio and then lived at Hull House in Chicago, Illinois. In 1904, Dunlap accepted the position of head resident at Roadside Settlement House in Des Moines, Iowa. One of her first assignments was to lead […]
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart


Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was also affiliated with the National Woman's Party and was an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. Due to her father's occupation as a legal representative for various railroads, the family moved frequently during her childhood, living at times in Kansas City, Des Moines, St. Paul, and Chicago. Earhart graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in June 1915. Earhart entered Ogontz School near Philadelphia in 1916. The […]
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman


Crystal Catherine Eastman was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She was a leader in the women's suffrage movement, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Eastman was born on June 25, 1881, in Marlborough, Massachusetts. She graduated from Vassar College in 1903, received an M.A. in sociology from Columbia University in 1904, and received a law degree from New York University Law School in 1907. Her first job was researching labor conditions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the […]
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I


Elizabeth I was queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558, until her death on March 24, 1603. Known as the Virgin Queen or Good Queen Bess, she was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. Elizabeth was born September 7, 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. After Anne's execution two and a half years after Elizabeth's birth, the marriage was annulled and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. After the death of Henry VIII in 1547, Elizabeth's younger half-brother, Edward VI, ruled […]
Rebecca L Felton
Rebecca L Felton


Rebecca Latimer Felton, a prominent suffragist and temperance advocate but also a white supremacist and an advocate of segregation and lynching, was the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, as a senator for Georgia. Appointed to fill a vacancy, she served only 24 hours. Felton was born on June 10, 1835, in De Kalb County, Georgia. She graduated from Madison Female College in 1852. In 1953, she married William H. Felton, a state legislator, physician, Methodist minister and planter. She began her political career as his campaign […]
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn


Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born on August 7, 1890, in Concord, New Hampshire. She was born into a radical, activist family; her father was a socialist and her mother was a feminist. She grew up in poor, industrial New England towns before her family settled in the blue-collar Bronx section of New York City. Flynn became active in socialist groups and gave her first public speech at the age of sixteen. As a result of her involvement in political affairs, she was expelled from her high school in 1907. Her […]
Betty A Ford
Betty A Ford


Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford was first lady of the United States from 1974-1977, the wife of the 38th president of the United States, Gerald Ford. Ford was born April 8, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She intended to pursue a profession in dance, studying at Bennington College School of Dance, Vermont, in the summers of 1937 and 1938. During high school, she opened her own dance school called Betty Bloomer Dance School, renting space to use as a studio where she taught children and adults. […]
Abby Kelley Foster
Abby Kelley Foster


Abby Kelley Foster was an abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. Kelley was born on Jan. 15, 1811, in Pelham, Massachusetts, into a Quaker family. After completing high school, she became a teacher, moving to Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1836. Known by her colleagues and the public as, simply, “Abbyy Kelley,” she became interested in abolition after attending a lecture by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and joined the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Lynn, a chapter of Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society. She served as the chapter's first delegate to the national convention of […]
Marie Foster
Marie Foster


Marie Foster was a civil rights activist who helped African Americans in Selma, Alabama, register to vote. She was also a founding member of the Dallas County Voters League and a local organizer of the 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery. Foster was born on October 24, 1917, near Alberta, Alabama. Her mother moved Foster and her siblings to Selma to get an education. Dropping out before completing high school, Foster married and raised three children after the death of her husband. She eventually completed high school, attended junior college, […]
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 […]