Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms was a Republican United States Representative from Illinois who served from 1929 to 1931.

"Goddess of Mercy!" During the Rape of Nanking (1937-38), the Chinese women refugees under Minnie Vautrin’s protection gratefully addressed her this way.

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

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

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.

A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the 19th century.

Female labor activist “Mother Jones” was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser”.

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century.

Julia Ward Howe was a writer, lecturer, abolitionist and suffragist.

Prudence Crandall bravely defied prevailing patterns of racial discrimination when she opened one of the first schools for African American girls in Connecticut in 1833.

Rachel Carson catalyzed the global environmental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring.

Carrie Chapman Catt was a suffragist and peace activist who helped secure for American women the right to vote