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Susan B. Anthony
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Acquaintance with E.C Stanton, one of the founders of American's Suffrage Movement. was an abolitonist before becomiing a suffragist
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Francis Perkins
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Was the first female to serve on a presiden't cabinet
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Betty Friedan
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Best known for founding the National Organization of Women (NOW)
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Rosa Parks
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Known for her courage in refusing to give up her seat to a white man
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Lucretia Mott
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Was the first female abolitionist delegate to the International Suffrage Meeting in London, England in 1840
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( E.C Stanton )
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She began her work as a suffragist when she wrote her "Declaration of Sentiments", declaring the rights of women, was presented to the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention
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Victoria Woodhull
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Spiritualist, activist, politician and author who was the first woman to run for the presidency of U.S
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Ida B. Wells
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An African-American journalist/activist, Ida B. Wells-Barnett led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
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Charollette Perkins Gillman
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American author, lecturer, feminist, and social reformer wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
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Annie Oakley
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legendary sharpshooter and performer in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. She was one of the best known characters of the Old West.
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Emmaa Goldman
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Goldman joined Margaret Sanger in crusading for women's access to birth control
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Jane Addams
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Created the first settlement house in the US, Hull-House, and became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Marry Harris "Mother Jones"
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Union activist. founded the Social Democratic Party, and helped establish the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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"A Century of Dishonor", unfair treatment our American Indians received at the hands of government agents.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Newspaper column "My Day", held press conferences, idealism, fought for political and social change
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