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Evgenia Konradi (1838–1898) – early women's rights activist and writer; Tatiana Mamonova (born 1943) – author, non-profit founder, and artist; Poliksena Shishkina-Iavein (1875–1947) – physician and suffragette; Nadezhda Stasova (1822–1895) – early women's rights activist, member of "triumvirate"
Major figure in early women's movement in Ireland, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association: 1800–1874: Anna Hierta-Retzius: Sweden: 1841: 1924: Women's rights activist and philanthropist: 1800–1874: Thomas Wentworth Higginson: United States: 1828: 1911: Abolitionist, minister, author: 1800–1874: Marie Hoheisel: Austria: 1873: 1947 ...
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 ...
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960) – reform pedagogue, women's rights activist; Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947) – educator, translator, publicist, suffragist; Anna Karima (1871–1949) – suffragist and women's rights activist; Kina Konova (1872–1952) – publicist and suffragist; Julia Malinova (1869–1953) – women's rights activist
Women's rights conventions were then held regularly from 1850 until the start of the Civil War. [10] The American women's suffrage movement began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention; many of the activists became politically aware during the abolitionist movement.
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [38] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement. [39] [40]
"In the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, she was the only woman in the decision-making councils of the male leadership. Dorothy was always there, and she has continued to be there, before ...