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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"
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.
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 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:
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
It was the "first women's liberation group in New York City", [52] and followed a radical feminist ideology that declared that "the personal is political" and "sisterhood is powerful"—formulations that arose from these consciousness-raising sessions. [53] [54] Within the year, women's liberation groups sprang up all over America. [55]
When Nannie Helen Burroughs established the National Association of Wage Earners in the early 20th century, Black women and ... Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Civil Rights Leaders ...
"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 ...