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Severine Casse (1805–1898) – women's rights activist, successful in fighting for a wife's right to dispose of her earnings; Karen Dahlerup (1920–2018), women's rights activist and politician; Ulla Dahlerup (born 1942) – writer, women's rights activist, member of the Danish Red Stocking Movement
women's suffrage/women's rights leader Lucy Stone: 1818 1893 United States: women's suffrage/voting rights leader Frederick Douglass: 1818 1895 United States: abolitionist, women's rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspiration Julia Ward Howe: 1818 1910 United States: writer, organizer, suffragette Susan B ...
1994 – The Violence Against Women Act funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence and allows women to seek civil rights remedies for gender-related crimes. Six years later, the ...
Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837–1920) – pioneering women's rights activist and suffragist; Eugenia Rasponi (1873–1958) – suffragist, business woman, and early lesbian activist; Ada Sacchi Simonetta (1874–1944) – women's rights activist, founder and leader of women's organizations
Linda Malnati (1855–1921) – influential women's rights activist, trade unionist, suffragist, pacifist and writer; Virginia Tango Piatti (1869–1958) – writer and pacifist, WILPF delegate; Graziella Sonnino (born 1884) – feminist and peace activist; Ida Vassalini (1891–1953) – chair of the Milanese WILPF chapter from 1922 to 1927 [13]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, a major milestone in the fight for gender-based equality. Successive movements — like Womanism, which arose to account ...
Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes; May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021) was an American civil rights activist best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement, a civil rights action in the early 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore.
She then co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus, was the first Black woman to serve on the House Rules Committee, and spent her life championing equality, pacifism, and ending poverty ...