Fab Five

March: Activism and Civic Engagement

Our monthly Fab Five round-up seeks to highlight women that have, and continue to make, history. Presenting women’s stories that have been traditionally overlooked, NWHM museum educators feature five historical pioneers and contemporary newsmakers each month that inspire us to help make the world a better place. To celebrate Women’s History Month, the women featured in this month’s Fab Five are women whose activism is based in their own civic engagement and encourages others—especially women—to also get civically engaged!

A veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Inn uprising, Sylvia Rivera was a tireless advocate for those silenced and disregarded by larger movements.

Sylvia Rivera

Abrams is now one of the most prominent African American female politicians in the United States.

Stacey Abrams

Throughout her long life, Hedgeman advocated for civil rights, education, social justice, poverty relief, and women.

Anna Arnold Hedgeman

As a poet, writer, activist, organizer, legal theorist, and priest, Murray was directly involved in, and helped articulate, the intellectual foundations of two of the most important social justice movements of the twentieth century.

Pauli Murray

As one of the newest members of Congress, Bush pushes for progressive legislative goals that will benefit her constituents—people just like her.

Cori Bush

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