Amelia Bloomer was a suffragist, editor, social activist, and fashion advocate who worked to change women’s clothing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer.