TWOMN 347: History of Women in the United States
Basic Information William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He is known as an American sociologist, a historian, author, editor, and an activist who was well renowned for his contributions as a Black intellectual leader throughout the beginning of the 20th century. He is also a founding member…
Basic Information Emma Kaʻilikapuolono Metcalf Beckley Nakuina (1847 – 1929) was born to a Native Hawaiian noble mother, Chiefess Ka’ilikapuolono, and an elite American sugar planter father, Theophilus Metcalf. She was “neither queen nor a commoner, but somewhere in the middle” (Young, 2017). She is best known as Judge Emma Nakuina, the first female judge…
Basic Information Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, also known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá, was born as Gertrude Simmons February 22nd, 1876. She was born on the Yankton Reservation, at the time making up what was left of Sioux land, and what white Americans know as South Dakota. After getting an education at Quaker institutions, she would…
Basic Information Irene Moorman Blackstone, a black businesswoman social activist for equal rights, was part of the first wave of feminism and a clubhouse member in Brooklyn. Blackstone was very known in the Harlem circles, in which she joined New York Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in…
Basic Information An important leader to the suffragist movement, Marie Bottineau Baldwin was born in Pembina, North Dakota into the Chippewa tribe on December 14, 1863. She became the first person of color to graduate from Washington College of Law with a law degree and was passionate about using her unique position to speak up…
Basic Information Alva Belmont was born in Mobile, Alabama on January 17th, 1853. Throughout Belmont’s earlier years, Belmont worked her way up the social ladder in New York due to her love for architecture and interior design. With the help of her social status, Belmont was able to join the National American Women’s Suffrage Association…