Biography
Elizabeth Packard
After defending her sanity at trial in 1864, Packard campaigned to ensure the rights of the mentally ill as well as those of married women.
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Biography
Dorothy Boulding Ferebee
The founder of the Mississippi Health Project and the Southeast Neighborhood House, Dr. Dorothy Ferebee provided healthcare to the most vulnerable members of the African American community.
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Biography
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African American woman to receive a Medical Degree (MD) in the United States.
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Lesson Plan
Angela Davis, Feminist Solidarity
Students will explore Angela Davis’ call for intersectionality and a feminist solidarity for the 21st century.
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Lesson Plan
Dolores Huerta and the Delano Grape Strike
The Delano Grape Strike represents one of the most important labor movements in American history and demonstrates an intersection between the Civil Rights Movement and the movement initiated by the Mexican-American and Filipino-American communities.
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Lesson Plan
How do we remember and honor the contributions of women in public space?
The objective of this lesson is to help students thinking critically about public history and the decision-making that goes into designing and advocating for public memorials to commemorate women in American history.
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Lesson Plan
Ida B. Wells: Suffragist and Anti-Lynching Activist
This mini lesson will introduce students to Ida B. Wells through a primary source and invite students to explore the geography of American lynchings through an interactive map.
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Lesson Plan
Shirley Chisholm, Unbossed and Unbought
Students will use the words of Rep. Shirley Chisholm to better understand her experience, and the experience of women everywhere in America.
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Biography
Amy Coney Barrett
In October 2020, Amy Coney Barrett became the fifth woman confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Biography
Sonia Sotomayor
As the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made an impact in and out of the courtroom.
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Exhibit
Feminismo: La Segunda Ola
Al igual que la primera ola, que se desarrolló durante un período de reformas sociales, la segunda ola también tuvo lugar en medio de otros movimientos sociales y políticos.
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Biography
Lani Ka’ahumanu
Lani Ka’ahumanu, a leader of the bisexual rights movement in the U.S., has worked for greater visibility for bisexuals both within the LGBTQ movement as well as broader society.
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Exhibit
Feminism: The First Wave
While many date the “first wave” of feminism to the Women’s Rights Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, the origins of the feminism movement lay much earlier.
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Exhibit
Feminismo: La Primera Ola
Durante generaciones, el movimiento feminista ha avanzado notablemente en la defensa de los derechos de las mujeres.
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Biography
Catherine Coleman Flowers
Environmental health advocate Catherine Coleman Flowers is determined to battle “America’s Dirty Secret”: unequal sewage and sanitation access for rural communities and people of color.
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Biography
Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Throughout her long life, Hedgeman advocated for civil rights, education, social justice, poverty relief, and women.
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Biography
Pauli Murray
As a poet, writer, activist, organizer, legal theorist, and priest, Murray was directly involved in, and helped articulate, the intellectual foundations of two of the most important social justice movements of the twentieth century.
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Biography
Stacey Abrams
Abrams is now one of the most prominent African American female politicians in the United States.
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Biography
Sylvia Rivera
A veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Inn uprising, Sylvia Rivera was a tireless advocate for those silenced and disregarded by larger movements.
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