SUFFRAGETTE CITY
Her middle intial B. stood for Brownell
Susan B. Anthony
In a 2016 speech, she said, "When someone is cruel... you don't stoop to their level - No... when they go low, we go high"
Michelle Obama
Before she died in 1906, she helped pave the way for women to vote & the 19th Amendment is nicknamed in her honor
Susan B. Anthony
The "Envelope Poems" of this 19th century New Englander are named for what she scribbled on
Emily Dickinson
This wedding tradition may have once had to do with sweeping away evil spirits & today symbolizes a new beginning
Jumping the broom
When she married Henry Stanton in 1840, she insisted on omitting the word "obey" from the marriage vows
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
At a climate change conference in 2018, she said, "The first thing I have learned is that you are never too small to make a difference"
Greta Thunberg
The war of Austrian Succession was fought over whether she should succeed to the throne, which she did in 1740
Maria Theresa
Elizabeth Barrett Browning asked, "How do I love thee?", then answered her own question starting with these 5 words
Let me count the ways...
In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show
Nat King Cole
It's the number of the U.S. Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
This creator of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" repeats the advice her father gave her: "The only limit to your success is your own imagination"
Shonda Rhimes
One of America's first self-made female millionaires, this founder of a beauty empire was the subject of a Netflix series
Madam CJ Walker
This American poet wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and recited "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Clinton’s inauguration.
Maya Angelou
While Ebony is for the black community in general, this magazine launched in 1970 is geared especially to black women
Essence
A utilitarian philosopher who worked with suffrage societies, he wrote 1869's "The Subjection of Women"
John Stuart Mill
She said, "Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them... have enriched my life beyond measure"
Jane Goodall
In 1889 social reformers Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Starr founded this famous settlement house in Chicago
Hull House
In "First Fig" she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
These heroic aviators were the first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II
The Tuskegee Airmen
The first woman to run for president, she was a proponent of free love as well as suffrage
Victoria Woodhull
Prime minister who in 1983 said, "I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end"
Margret Thatcher
She made history when she became the first woman in space & more recently she's served in the Russian parliament
Valentina Tereshkova
This poet who wrote "The New Colossus" has been called one of the first successful Jewish-American authors
Emma Lazarus
In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women
Spelman