Women individuals Flashcards
(22 cards)
Sojourner Truth
Social. She was an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance and civil and women’s rights.
Early period
Lucretia Mott
Social.
Early feminist activist and a strong advocate for ending slavery. A powerful orator. She spent her lifetime speaking out against racial and gender injustice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Social.
A chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, she formulated teh agenda for women’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th centruty. Introduced her Declaration of Sentiments, modelled on the declaration of independence that detailed the inferior status of women and calling for extensive reforms, effectively launched the American women’s rights.
Susan B Anthony
Political.
Pioneered for women’s suffrage movement, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Helped pave the way for the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Lucy Stone
Political.
Went to College, became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Chairman of the executive board of the merged National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Julia Ward-Howe
Social and political. Joined Lucy Stone in founding the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) which championed the 15th Amendment. Pioneered for Mothers day.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Led the women’s rights movement for more than 25 years, leading to the 19th Amendment in 1920. Succeeded Susan B Anthony as president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
Margaret Sanger
Social contraception.
Credited with creating the term ‘birth control’. Dedicated her life to removing legal barriers to publicising the facts about contraception and legalising it. Organised lobbying for the repeal of the Comstock Act. She set up clinics for contraception using a loophole about contraception being allowed if it was for health reasons.
Emma Goldman
Social.
She championed women’s equality, free love, worker’s rights, free universal education regardless of race or gender, and anarchism. She helped found the Free Speech League at the start of the 1900s, created in response to legislation trying to limit anarchism.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Social/political/economic. Joined the Women’s Trade Union League and became actively involved in the New York State Democratic Party. She was an activist for equal rights for women as well as child welfare, housing and racial minorities. Inspiration to women. Gradually embraced ERA
Rosa Parks
Social.
Refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. This started a boycott of the buses for 281 days and led to Browder vs Gayle in 1956. A determined activist for civil rights.
Ella Baker
Political / social.
She was a community organiser and political activist who was a co-founder of the SCLC and an inspiring force behind SNCC.
Betty Freidan
Social.
Wrote the 1963 book ‘A Feminine Mystique’ that explored the causes of frustration of modern women in traditional roles. She raised awareness over how lots of women didn’t want to just be home keepers and had higher aspirations.
Gloria Steinem
Social.
A journalist at the front of a new wave of feminism in the later 1900s. She made speeches about legalising abortion and pioneered for women in more serious, political journalism. She continues to be a renowned feminist.
Martha Griffiths
She was a lawyer. The first woman to serve on the House Committee on Ways and Means and the first woman elected to the US congress from Michigan as a Democrat. She was instrumental in including the prohibition of sex discrimination in the 1964 CRA.
Phyllis Schlafly
VS feminism.
She led a successful campaign against the ratification of ERA in the 1970s. She argued against feminism, abortion and gay rights. She was one of the first to tap into the conservative religious sentiment based on ‘family values’
Estelle Griswold
Social contraception.
Griswold vs Connecticut. She campaigned for the use of contraceptives and won a Supreme Court case on the basis that a state’s ban on the use of contraceptives violated the to marital privacy.
Sarah Weddington
Social abortion and political.
An attorney and an advocate for women’s rights and reproductive health. Best known for representing Jane Roe in Roe vs Wade, a case that ruled that the Constitution protected the right to have an abortion.
Frances Perkins
Political.
She became the first woman to hold a cabinet position, the US Secretary of labour from 1933-45.
Norma McCorvey AKA Jane Roe
Social / political.
The plaintiff in the monumental Roe vs Wade judgement by the SC.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Political.
Nominated by Reagan, she was an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1981 to 2006. She was the first woman to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice
Carrie Nation
Social and political.
During temperance and prohibition she went to saloons and used a hatchet to smash them up and their contents. Sought to ban alcohol.
