TWOMN 347: History of Women in the United States
Basic information Eugene V Debs was born on the 5th of November,1855 in Terre Haute Indiana. Debs was a charismatic man with great skills for public speaking, organizing, and funding. He used these skills to aid for formation of unions within railroad workers, and other…
Basic Information Jovita Idar was a teacher, journalist, civil rights activist, nurse, and suffragist. Idar boldly spoke out about the injustices facing Tejanos during the early 1900s. Jovita Idar was born on September 7, 1885 in the borderland of Laredo, Texas. Idar was the second of…
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…
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…
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…