Pioneers of the Movement
This Quaker suffragist was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election in Rochester, NY.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
In 1837, she became one of the first American women to earn a college degree, graduating from Oberlin College.
Who is Mary Hosford? (Accept Caroline Rudd or Elizabeth Prall; or "one of the first Oberlin women graduates")
The 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in this year.
What is 1920?
This Supreme Court justice, known for her powerful dissents, was the first woman to be honored with a statue in a New York City courthouse.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Known as the "Iron Lady" of Myanmar, she spent nearly 15 years under house arrest for her pro-democracy activism.
Who is Aung San Suu Kyi?
She organized the 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.
Who is Alice Paul?
This New York town was home to the first women's rights convention in 1848, held at a local chapel.
What is Seneca Falls?
This Tennessee legislator, at age 24, cast the tie-breaking vote that ratified the 19th Amendment, changing his vote after receiving a letter from his mother.
Who is Harry T. Burn?
This activist's hashtag #BlackLivesMatter grew into a global movement for racial justice.
Who is Alicia Garza? (Accept Patrisse Cullors or Opal Tometi)
As Pakistan's first female Prime Minister, she was the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority country, before being assassinated in 2007.
Who is Benazir Bhutto?
A former slave and conductor of the Underground Railroad, she also served as a spy for the Union Army.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, she later became the first woman to win a presidential nomination from a major party and taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Who is Hillary Rodham Clinton?
The National Woman's Party took a more militant approach, with members picketing the White House and enduring forced feedings after going on this type of strike.
What is a hunger strike?
She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez and was a leading voice for laborers' and women's rights in the fields.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
A Saudi women's rights activist who has been imprisoned for her work to end the country's male guardianship system and ban on female driving.
Who is Loujain al-Hathloul?
This "First Lady of the World" was a delegate to the UN and helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
As president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012, she was the first Black woman to lead an Ivy League institution.
Who is Ruth Simmons?
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) used this two-word strategy, focusing on winning the vote state by state.
What is "state-by-state"? (Accept "state suffrage")
A leader of the Combahee River Collective, she coined the term "identity politics" and is a foundational scholar of intersectional feminism.
Who is Barbara Smith?
The first Indigenous woman to vote in Canada (legally), she was a Mohawk activist who led the 1924 resistance against the Indian Act.
Who is Laura (or Kahsennenhawe) Skye? (Accept Mary Two-Axe Earley)
She refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks, sparking a legal challenge in Montgomery.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
A historian of the American South, she became the first woman to serve as president of Harvard University in 2007.
Who is Drew Gilpin Faust?
A leader of the NWP, this woman was the first to suggest the wording for the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923.
Who is Alice Paul?
This attorney and activist founded the Me Too movement in 2006, long before it became a viral hashtag.
Who is Tarana Burke?
A founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, she was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in environmental conservation and women's rights.
Who is Wangari Maathai?