TWOMN 347: History of Women in the United States
Basic Information Harriot Stanton Blatch was born January 20, 1856 in Seneca Falls, NY to abolitionist Henry Stanton and famed political feminist and suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She is most well-known for her contributions to women’s labor rights within the woman suffrage movement in the United States and England, authoring works on the movement, and…
Basic Information Mabel Vernon was born on the 19th of September 1883 in Wilmington, Delaware. She was endowed with great skills for public speaking, organizing, and fundraising. Vernon used these skills to facilitate the movement for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Background Information Vernon’s father was an editor for a Republican paper and their…
Basic Information Maria Adeline Emiila Otero-Warren was born in Los Lunas on October 23, 1881. Otero-Warren took on many different roles as she was an educator, politician, and suffragist (Martinez, 2019). She helped secure women’s right to vote by getting the vote ratified in New Mexico (Whaley, 2008, pp. 85-88). She…
Basic Information Doris Stevens was born in Omaha, Nebraska on October 26, 1888. She was a suffragist and women’s rights activist. She was a part of several suffrage organizations including the National Women’s Party. With her book, Jailed for Freedom, she shed light on the fight of suffragists and the injustice they experienced, including prison…
Basic Information Fannie Barrier Williams born on February 12, 1855 and lived until her passing from a stroke on the 4th of March in 1944. Williams was an educated woman who used her education to aid in the first wave movement. She is widely known as the first African American member of the Chicago Woman’s…
Basic Information Famously known as Amalia Post, she was born on January 30, 1826, in Johnson, Vermont, and died in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on January 28, 1897. She grew up amidst a time where life for men and women was contrary. Husbands had the expected role of supporting their wives and children. She prepared to…
Basic Information Carrie Williams Clifford was born on September of 1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio. A truly extraordinary woman who dedicated her time and effort to the black community. Clifford was mostly known for being a poet, writer, clubwomen, and a women’s and civil rights activist. Clifford’s strong drive to make a change during the…
Basic Information Josephine B. Willson was born on October 29, 1853, into the Black aristocracy of Philadelphia. After receiving her education, she became a teacher in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1878 she married one of the first Black United States senators, Blanche K. Bruce. She would go on to become a leading Washington hostess, women’s club…
Basic Information Rose Schneiderman, born in Poland, was a Jewish immigrant who moved to the United States on April 16, 1882. As a prominent first-wave feminist, Schneiderman has diligently worked on improving the basic human rights for working women in America and also participated in the suffragist movement (Orleck, 2009). Background Information Born in Saven…
Information Naomi Bowman Talbert Anderson was born on March 1, 1843 in Michigan City, Indiana. She was a writer and speaker who went to many conventions and wrote letters to and for newspapers advocating for women’s rights and racial equality. Her lectures, poems and speeches were unique during her time because it expressed the…