Partial list of women's rights advocates. Who's missing? Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) – women's rights activist shot in assassination attempt by Taliban for advocating for girls' education Jane Addams (1860–1935) – major social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – prominent opponent of slavery, played a pivotal role in the 19th-century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, and social reformer Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – feminist and journalist, editor of the Woman's Journal, a major women's rights publication Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869 Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – businessman, abolitionist, journalist, suffrage leader and campaigner Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – advocate of women's issues, suffragist, publisher and editor of The Lily Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) – author of Sex and the Single Girl, long-time editor of Cosmopolitan, advocate of women's self-fulfillment Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – suffragist and women's rights activist Jacqueline Ceballos – feminist and founder of Veteran Feminists of America Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – suffragist leader, president of National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women William Henry Channing (1810–1884) – minister, author Grace Julian Clarke (1865–1938) – suffragist, journalist, author Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) – abolitionist, writer, speaker Carol Downer (born 1933) – founder of women's self-help movement, feminist, and attorney Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – suffragist, civil rights activist, participated in Suffrage Hikes Nancy Friday (born 1933) – writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006) – writer, activist, feminist Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) – Transcendentalist, advocate of women's education, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) – suffragist, editor, writer, organizer William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) – abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933) – academic and lawyer for several women's rights cases before the United States Supreme Court. She herself became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993. Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – campaigner for birth control and other rights Judy Goldsmith (born 1938) – feminist activist, President of National Organization for Women (NOW) Helen M. Gougar (1843–1907) – lawyer, temperance and women's rights advocate Grace Greenwood (1823–1904) – first woman reporter on New York Times, advocate of social reform and women's rights Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1828–1911) – abolitionist, minister, author Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907) – leader, lecturer and activist in the American Suffragist movement Julia Ward Howe (1818–1910) – suffragist, writer, organizer Jane Hunt (1812–1889) – philanthropist Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – suffragist and organizer of the Suffrage Hikes Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – women's rights journalist, suffragist Kate Kelly (1980)- feminist and human rights lawyer, founder of Ordain Women, works for Planned Parenthood. Abby Kelley (1811–1887) – opponent of slavery, women's rights activist, one of the first women to voice views in public speeches Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – suffragist, key participant in National Woman's Party and Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 Robin Morgan (born 1941) – poet, political theorist, journalist and lecturer Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, who helped write Declaration of Sentiments during 1848 Seneca Falls Convention Pauli Murray (1910–1985) – civil and women's rights activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest Diane Nash (born 1938) – Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights exponent Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger (born 1932) – instigator of first rape-reform laws Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder College Equal Suffrage League, first president League of Women Voters Alice Paul (1885–1977) – One of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for 19th Amendment, founder of National Woman's Party, initiator of Silent Sentinels and 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) – abolitionist, orator, lawyer Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – writer, nurse, founder American Birth Control League, founder president of Planned Parenthood May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – educator, feminist, president of National Council of Women for the United States, president of the International Council of Women Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) – president of National Women's Suffrage Association Eleanor Smeal (born 1939) – organizer, initiator, president of NOW, founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) – social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of National Woman Suffrage Association and International Council of Women Gloria Steinem (born 1934) – writer, activist, feminist, women's rights journalist Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and National Woman's Party, Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) – founder president of Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government Lucy Stone (1818–1893) – orator, one of the initiators of the first National Women's Rights Convention, founder of Woman's Journal, force behind the American Woman Suffrage Association, noted for retaining her surname after marriage Roshini Thinakaran – film-maker focussing on lives of women in post-conflict zones Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – Buffalo and New York suffragist, later influential journalist and radio broadcaster Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 1883) – abolitionist and women's rights activist and speaker Mabel Vernon (1883–1975) – suffragist, member of Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, organizer for Silent Sentinels Harry S. Weeks – suffragist, civil rights activist, founder of Wheeling, WV's Democratic-Socialist Union Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) – civil rights and anti-lynching activist, suffragist noted for refusal to avoid media attention as an African American Frances Willard (1839–1898) – long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which, under her leadership, supported women's suffrage Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – suffragist, organizer, first woman to run for U.S. presidency Rose O'Neill (1874-1944) famous illustrator (Kewpie creator) who worked for women's right to vote by creating posters and advertising material to promoting the women's movement. Worked with Eleanor Roosevelt.