Women's Rights Activists Educational Posters, pg 1
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and theme decor.

Abigail Adams
b. 11-11-1744; Weymouth, MA
d. 10-28-181

Abigail Adams, née Smith, one of the most influential women of the late 18th century, wrote to her husband John Adams in March of 1776, “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

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Louisa May Alcott
b. 11-29-1832; Pennsylvania
d. 3-6-1888; Boston

Did you know that Louisa May Alcott canvassed door to door to encourage women to register to vote, and in 1879 became the first woman in Concord, MA to register to vote in the village’s school committee election? Does this revelation remind you of Alcott's character Jo March in her novel "Little Women"? Alcott's first novel "A Long Fatal Love Chase" may be of more interest to those considering her feminism motives.

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Viscountess Astor
b. 5-19-1879; Danville, Virginia
d. 5-2-1964; England

American born Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, was the first woman to serve as a member of the British House of Commons. She was the wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, and also an adherant to her particuliar understanding of Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science.

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Marie Bashkirtseff
b. 11-11-1858; Ukraine
d. 10-31-1884; Paris (tuberculosis)

Marie Bashkirtseff, born to a wealthy Russian noble family, studied painting and wrote articles for Hubertine Auclert's French feminist newspaper, La Citoyenne. She is most noted today for her personal journals, published as "I am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff", describing, among other things, the struggles of women artists.

Lydia Becker
b. 2-24-1827; Manchester, England
d. 7-18-1890

Lydia Becker, an aspiring amateur biologist and astonomer, was a leader in the early British suffrage movement arguing that there was no natural difference between the intellect of men and women. In 1870 she established the Women's Suffrage Journal, the first national paper covering the women's suffrage campaign, proposing a non-gendered educational system in Britain.

Emily Wilding Davison
b. 1872; Blackheath, London
d. 6-8-1913; skull fracture

Emily Davison was an suffragette whose actions inspired the slogan "Deeds not words" of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). "The Suffragette", the official organ of the WSPU newspaper and edited by Christabel Pankhurst, announced "Miss Davison, who made a protest at the Derby against the denial of Votes to Women, was knocked down by the King's horse and sustained terrible injuries of which she died on Sunday, June 8th, 1913."

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Dorothea Dix
b. 4-4-1802; Hampden, ME
d. 7-17-1887; Trenton, NJ

Dorothea Dix was a social reformer who, on behalf of the indigent insane, created the first American mental hospitals, with government support. She also served as Superintendent of Union Army Nurses during the American Civil War, where she provided equal care for the wounded of both sides.

• Dorothea Dix in Women Who Dared I composite poster

Marguerite Durand
b. 1-24-1864; France
d. 3-16-1936

Marguerite Durand was a French actress who turned to journalism after a failed marriage, and then became a women's rights activist after covering the Congrès Féministe International in 1896. Her daily newspaper, La Fronde, was a successor to Hubertine Auclert's La Citoyenne.

• Marguerite Durand (1864-1936): "La Fronde" féministe, ou, "Le Temps" en jupons (Chemins de la mémoire)

Margaret Fuller
b. 5-23-1810; Cambridge, MA
d. 6-19-1850; ship wreck off Fire Isl., NY

Margaret Fuller was a women's rights activist, journalist, and Transcentalist. She was also an educator, bringing women together for "conversations" meant to compensate for the lack of formal educaton for women. Fuller was the New York Tribunes first woman editor (1844), and also its first woman foreign correspondent. It was on her return to the US that she died in a ship wreck.

• The Portable Margaret Fuller
• Margaret Fuller in Women Who Dared I composite poster

Emma Goldman
b. 6-27-1869; Lithuania
d. 5-19-1940; Canada

Emma Goldman was a prolific writer and speaker, constantly drawing attention to her ideas for women’s equality with sexual freedom and birth control, freedom of thought and expression, and worker’s rights for an eight hour day and union organizing.

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Maud Gonne
b. 12-21-1866; England
d. 4-27-1953

Maude Gonne was an Irish actress, feminist, and patriot. Poet William Butler Yeats was infatuated with her, she was also the mother of Sean MacBride, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.

• Maude Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc

Marie-Olympe de Gouges
b. 12-31-1748; France
d. 11-3-1793

Marie-Olympe de Gouges was a writer, feminist, & revolutionary who was guillotined during the French Reign of Terror.

Anne Hutchinson
b. July, 1591; England
d. 8-20-1643, killed by Indians in what is now Pelham Bay Park, NY.

Anne Hutchinson, née Marbury, was a key figure in the development of religious freedom in the American colonies. She taught that salvation was through inward grace and not through performing religious works.

• American Jezebel, The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans

Juliette Gordon Low
b. 10-31-1860; Savannah, GA
d. 1-17-1927; Savannah (breast cancer)

Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912. Juliette Gordon Low's childhood home was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1965.

• Juliette Gordon Low