Lucretia Mott argued as ardently for women’s rights as for black rights, including suffrage, education, and economic aid.

A leading suffragist and abolitionist, Lucy Stone dedicated her life to battling inequality on all fronts.

Mary Church Terrell was a well-known African American activist who championed racial equality and women’s suffrage.

Beverly LaHaye has been an influential voice in American conservative politics for decades and founded the Concerned Women for America.

Condoleezza Rice is the first African American woman to hold several positions, including Secretary of State.

Although best known for being the wife of famed civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King created her own legacy.

Bates' work with the NAACP transformed the Civil Rights Movement.

Dorothy Height was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher.

Maria Tallchief was one of America's most popular ballerinas.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first woman to represent a major party in a US presidential election, the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first female senator from New York.

Susan B. Anthony was a champion of the temperance, abolition, and suffrage movements.

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman to serve in Congress.

Although raised on a slave-owning plantation, Angelina Grimké Weld became an ardent abolitionist.

Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution—a time when women were encouraged and expected to keep silent on political matters.

Phillis Wheatley Peters is broadly recognized as the first African American and the second U.S. woman to publish a book of poetry

Sojourner Truth, once an enslaved woman, became a fearless advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her work during the Civil War earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

A prominent essayist of the American republic, Judith Sargent Murray was an early advocate of women’s equality, access to education, and the right to control their earnings.