Category: Euro-American Women

  Basic Information Matilda Gage was a major player in the suffragette movement and was an advocate for abolition and Native American rights. She has been a forgotten figure who was essential in setting the foundation and pushing forward for women’s rights, as well as Native American rights. Because of her radical and progressive views,…

Basic Information Margaret Higgins Sanger was born September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York (Yasunari, 2000). Sanger is widely considered the original pioneer for reproductive rights in the United States due to her work in the popularization and provision of birth control. Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in American history, and founded the…

Basic Information Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York on November 12th, 1815. She is one of the most well-known suffragists in American history as she publicly spoke and wrote about the inequalities that women faced. Stanton was the first woman to organize the first Woman’s Rights Convention which signaled the beginning of…

  Basic Information Alice Stone Blackwell was born in Orange, New Jersey on September 14, 1857 to Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone. She worked most of her life as an editor for the official magazine for the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) called “Woman’s Journal.” The magazine, as well as the association it corresponded…

Basic Information Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born to Mary Wescott Perkins and Frederick Beecher Perkins on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut (Scharnhorst,1985, p.1). She was a prolific writer and, some would argue, the most influential feminist theorist of her time. Gilman’s writings include eight novels (three of which are utopian romances), a multitude of…

Antoinette Brown Blackwell Basic Information Antoinette Brown Blackwell was born in Rochester, NY in 1825 and passed in 1921 in the city of Elizabeth, NJ. Antoinette was married to Samuel C. Blackwell who was born in England, UK in 1823 and passed in 1901 Cincinnati, OH. They were both survived by Agnes Blackwell Jones, Ethel…

                Basic Information Edith Ainge, or Mary E. Ainge, was born in England in 1874 (Oaks, n.d.). Edith Angie is known for how active she was in protest in New York and DC. She was arrested five different times for protesting. She was also an important speaker for…

Basic Information Jeannette Pickering Rankin is best known as the first woman elected to a federal office in the United States.  She served two terms in the House of Representatives for the state of Montana.  Her terms corresponded with World War I and World War II, and she was the only member of Congress to…

  Basic Information Virginia Louisa Minor was born on March 27th, 1824 in Goochland County, Virginia (National Park Service, 2019). She was an American women’s suffrage activist that led the fight for the enfranchisement of women based on the 14th amendment. She is most well known for her involvement in the Minor v. Happersett case,…

  Basic Information Inez Milholland was born on August 6, 1886, in Brooklyn, New York and was one of the many women that participated in the women’s suffrage movement. Milholland supported those who were disenfranchised such as women, children, workers and the poor (Inez Milholland, n.d.). Milholland was passionate about social reform, which led her…