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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
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) – American writer, civil rights leader and pacifist; Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875–1944) – American pacifist, suffragist, feminist; Elizabeth McAlister (born 1939) – American former nun, co-founder of Jonah House, peace activist; Bertha McNeill (1887–1979) – African-American WILPF leader and civil rights ...
Women's rights activist for black, migrant and refugee women, high Suriname civil servant, sociologist and author: 1940–1999: Roya Toloui: Iran: 1966 – Women's rights activist: 1940–1999: Corin Tucker: United States: 1972 – Third-wave feminist [35] 1940–1999: Robin Tunney: United States: 1972 – Third-wave feminist: 1940–1999 ...
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during the two eras of activism in favor of women's rights. Some notable events:
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 ...
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 ...
Civil Rights Leaders, including Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and A. Philip Randolph, meet with former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and other officials ...
Oct. 5, 1789, a young woman struck a marching drum and led The Women's March on Versailles, in a revolt against King Louis XVI of France, storming the palace and signaling the French Revolution. [30] In 1947, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti led the Abeokuta Women's Union in a revolt that resulted in the abdication of the Egba High King Oba Ademola ...