Clara Lemlich Shavelson was a Jewish immigrant, garment worker, activist, mother, public speaker, and union organizer at a time when women in her position were rarely allowed formal education or the opportunity to speak in public.

A vocal leader of the 20th century women’s suffrage movement, Alice Paul advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment.

Nellie Bly became a star journalist by going undercover as a patient at a New York City mental health asylum in 1887 and exposing its terrible conditions in the New York World.

Imagine being the first woman to win an Olympic event for the United States, but never knowing that you had done so. This is what happened to Margaret Ives Abbott.

Lillian D. Wald helped to bring health care to the residents of New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century.