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This meeting of 30 leaders propelled the movement to start the second coeducation college in the United States, providing new educational opportunities for women. Founded in 1860 just prior to the American Civil War , Swarthmore College was established to provide: "A better educated generation that could achieve freedom, peace, prosperity, and ...
Many Black women participating in informal leadership positions, acting as natural "bridge leaders" and, thus, working in the background in communities and rallying support for the movement at a local level, partly explains why standard narratives neglect to acknowledge the imperative roles of women in the civil rights movement.
Following the Civil War, in 1866, leaders of the abolition and suffrage movements founded the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) to advocate for citizens' right to vote regardless of race or sex. Divisions among the group's members, which had existed from the outset, became apparent during the struggle over the ratification of two ...
Genevieve Fiore (1912–2002) – American women's rights and peace activist; Jane Fonda (born 1937) – American anti-war protester, actress; Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – American suffragist, civil rights activist and pacifist; Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – Russian/American activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [40] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement. [41] [42]
It has long been said that women were the backbone of the civil rights movement. That was true even in the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the charismatic leader whose name has become synonymous ...
journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois: 1868 1963 United States: writer, scholar, founder of NAACP Kasturba Gandhi: 1869 1944 India: wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned
Nellie F. Griswold Francis (November 7, 1874 – December 13, 1969) was an African-American suffragist, civic leader, and civil rights activist. Francis founded and led the Everywoman Suffrage Club, an African-American suffragist group that helped win women the right to vote in Minnesota. [1]