IDA B. WELLS

Journalist, Newspaper Editor, Suffragist, Sociologist, and Georgist

Working on behalf of all women called for President Woodrow Wilson

to put an end to discriminatory hiring.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

to the Constitution giving women the right to vote

ANNA JULIA COOPER 

Suffragist and Scholar. Fought tirelessly for voting and women’s rights.

Her book ‘A Voice from the South’ is widely viewed as

one of the first articulations of Black feminism.

 

 SUFFRAGIST

Fought tirelessly for women’s right to vote in the U.S.

The 19th amendment ratified August 18, 1920.

Women of Color excluded, flaws in 14th/15th Amendments.

 

FANNIE LOU HAMER

Fought tirelessly for voting, and women’s rights.

She coined the phrase, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”