TWOMN 347: History of Women in the United States
Basic Information In 1897 on October 7th in Guangzhou, China, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was born (Alexander, 2020). She was the first Chinese American suffragist and activist to fight for women’s rights and advocate for the Chinese community in America (Cahill, 2020a). Mabel Ping-Hua Lee started fighting for women’s suffrage and became an activist at the…
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 Emilia Casanova de Villaverde was a prominent political activist from Cuba, best known for her work with the movement for Cuban independence. She formed one of the earliest all-women organizations committed to the Antillean emancipation struggle, La Liga de las Hijas de Cuba. Casanova de Villaverde was the first Cuban woman to compose…
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 Sarah Winnemucca was an indigenous woman born around the year of 1844. Her tribe’s territory was located in what is currently the state of Nevada (Hopkins, 2015, p. 4; 2017, p. 9). Given the mistreatment of indigenous people during European colonization, Winnemucca became an activist for indigenous rights. She started by advocating for…
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 Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22nd, 1823. Higginson lived to the age of 87 and died on May 9th, 1911. Higginson conducted most of his work near his home in Massachusetts, and was married twice in his life, raising three children in total, including one that was adopted.…
Basic Information Maria Guadalupe Evangelina de Lopez was born in 1881, in her family home at Los Angeles, in San Gabriel. in city. De Lopez and her younger sister Ernestina operated a Spanish-language school at their house, Casa Vieja, in San Gabriel. Maria de Lopez also taught at the UCLA and University of California and…
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…