Category: Euro-American Women

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 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 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 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…

Basic Information Ida Crouch-Hazlett was born around 1875. Her maiden name was Ida Estelle Crouch. She was active in the fight for women’s rights and is mostly known for being the first Colorado woman to run for congress. She ran as a socialist for a seat in the House of Representatives. Crouch-Hazlett was a public…

Basic Information Lucy Burns was born on July 28th, 1879 in Brooklyn, New York and lived until December 22nd, 1966. Burns was a leader in the suffrage movement in the U.S. In April 1913 along with Alice Paul she formed a national organization, the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage which would later become known as…

Sarah and Angelina Grimké Basic Information On November 26, 1792, Sarah Grimké was born into an affluent family in Charleston, South Carolina (Alexander, 2018). Thirteen years later, Sarah’s sister, Angelina Grimké, was born on February 20, 1805 (Michals, 2015). Sarah and Angelina were notable activists for abolitionism and women’s rights (“Grimke Sisters,” n.d.). They maintained…

                Basic Information Born January 3rd, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Lucretia Mott grew to become a central figure in both the abolition and early women’s rights movements of the 19th century. Raised a Quaker, Mott was taught from an early age that all people are equal. Subsequently, she…