Partial list of Women’s Rights Advocates. Who’s missing?

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.

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