TWOMN 347: History of Women in the United States
Basic Information Rose Winslow, also known as Ruza Wenclawska, was born in Suwalki, Poland to a steel worker and a coal miner in 1889. At five years old, she moved to western Pennsylvania with her family. Winslow is known for her recruitment and fundraising for the…
Basic Information Mary Coffin Ware Dennett was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on April 4th, 1872. Dennett is best known for her activism for women’s reproductive rights and involvement as field secretary of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. In addition, she was a suffragist, pacifist, and artisan (Mary Ware Dennett, n.d.). From 1910-14 she was the…
Basic Information Lillie Blake was an American author born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Blake wrote under a pseudonym, Tiger Lily, under which she published five novels after her first husband’s passing. After meeting her second husband, Blake become involved in the New York State Suffrage Association where she then became president. She also attempted to…
Basic Information Lucy Stone was an esteemed lecturer and supporter of abolition and women’s rights (Garvin, 2005). Playing a central role as an activist, she helped organize and run the first National Woman’s Rights Convention, the American Equal Rights Association, and the American Woman’s Suffrage Association.…
Basic Information Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29th, 1832 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a famous author, most recognized for her work, Little Women. Alcott, however, was not solely a successful writer. She was also a nurse, abolitionist and women’s suffragist who made large impacts on the movements. Background Information Alcott was the…
Basic Information Maud Wood Park was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 25, 1871. After the passing of the 19th amendment, the National League of Women Voters was formed, and Park was their first president. She was among the younger generation to join the First Wave suffrage movement. Park was inspired by Alice Stone Blackwell…
Basic Information Emily Greene Balch (1867 – 1961) was a socialist, a pacifist, a professor, a Nobel prize winner, and an educated sociologist and economist. She devoted her life to advocating for various causes, all interconnected in some way: immigration, poverty, worker’s rights, women’s rights, and of course, peace, though this list is far from…
Basic Information Named for her mother, Lucy Gwynne Branham was born April 29th, 1892 in Kempsville, Virginia to passionate suffragist Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham and assistant surgeon father Dr. John W. Branham. After facing familial hardship, the elder Lucy settled herself and her two children in Baltimore, Maryland. A history major, the younger Lucy earned…
Basic Information Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, an American, was a woman’s rights activist, an educator, journalist/editor, and a nurse. She is best renowned for her engagement in the women’s suffrage campaign and her support for the United States Sanitary Commission in the American Civil War (1861–1865). Background Information Livermore was born in Boston, Massachusetts…
Basic Information On September 11th, 1853, populist Mary Elizabeth Lease was born in Ridgeway, Pennsylvania. Lease went on to become recognized as the first woman in American politics, contesting the societal belief that women are “deemed unimportant and unwanted” (Paup, 2012, p. 58) in the political…