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| The "Witch of WallStreet". A Miser who actually did Influence Wall Street and Let her son suffer. |
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| Mary Harris a.k.a. Mother Jones |
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| A Labor Leader and Organizer, "The Most Dangerous Woman in America. Founded the I.W.W. Ultra-Radical Union Worker in the Pacific North West, "Mother of All Agitators." |
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| Born to a Family of Confederate Sympathizers, married a series of Outlaws, one of which was Sam Starr. |
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| - A lecturer, writer, and political activist (but aren’t they all?) who was an advocate of temperance and suffrage, but is most closely associated with the Populist Party of the 1890’s. Supposedly she urged farmers to “raise less corn and more hell” |
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| Writer of the eminently creepy, The Yellow Wallpaper, she was a novelist, lecturer for social reform and what some have called a “Utopian feminist.” She was definitely an advocate for the “new woman.” |
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| African-American journalist and editor who led a campaign against lynching and was an activist for civil rights and women’s rights during her lifetime. She’s even had a postage stamp issued in her honor. |
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| A female journalist when such things were unheard of! She posed as a mental patient to write an expose of the terrible conditions then prevalent in asylums. |
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| - She was a woman’s advocate, nurse, sex educator and actually coined the term “birth control.” Founding Member of Planned parenthood. |
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| The first woman elected to the US Congress, first in 1916 and then again in 1940, from Montana. She was an ardent pacifist and voted against both WWI and WWII. |
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| She was the first woman appointed to a US Cabinet position when FDR made her Secretary of Labor from 1933 – 1945. She established the first minimum wage and overtime laws in US history as well. |
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| she was a political activist who was a founding member of the ACLU, the IWW, a socialist, a pacifist, a member of the Anti-Imperialist League, an advocate for birth control and was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
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| She was a poet, critic, short-story writer, one of the great “wits” of her era, friend to Robert Benchley and a member of the famed Algonquin Round Table. She was as close as America ever came to producing its own Oscar Wilde. |
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| One of America’s greatest labor organizers. She played an active part in the Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, NC, in 1929. |
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| A marine biologist and author of “Silent Spring,” one of the most important books in American history and one that is generally considered to have almost single-handedly begun the environmentalist movement in the US. |
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| Perhaps the greatest female athlete of all time. She was at least voted the “woman athlete of the 20th century” by the AP in 1999. |
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| Esteemed American historian and one of the most popular writers of “history” in the 20th century. She won two Pulitzer Prizes with The Guns of August, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, |
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| – African-American civil rights advocate who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. |
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| The undisputed “Queen of the Blues.” The most popular African-American female vocalist of the 1940’s and 1950’s. She was even inducted in the so-called “Rock & Roll Hall of Fame” and had a stamp issued in her honor in 1993. |
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| – The name might not ring a bell, but if you’ve ever seen those “We Can Do It!” and “Rosie the Riveter” posters from WWII, then you’re looking at Geraldine! |
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| The award winning American author of Longitude , which chronicles the attempts of 18th century British watchmaker, John Harrison, to win the 20,000 pound sterling prize to determine a method of measuring longitude. That required a more accurate clock than anyone had ever seen before and Ms. Sobel tells the tale of Harrison’s battle with the scientific snobs of his era in a masterful manner. |
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