Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) famously wrote the lyric, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” after meeting Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The well- educated daughter of a prosperous banker, Howe grew up among luminaries like Charles Dickens and Margaret Fuller, but her life was punctuated by painful losses, including that of her mother when Howe was […]
Ella Grasso Ella Grasso, born on May 10, 1919, was elected the first woman governor in her own right in the United States in 1975 and became a symbol for women in politics. She remained true to her convictions, not swayed by trends or lobbyists. Never forgetting her hometown of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, where she
Dr. Dolores Grier (1931-2018) was one of the most passionate advocates of justice, both in the pro-life and civil rights movements, of the 20th and 21st centuries. She founded the Association of Black Catholics Against Abortion and served on the boards of the African American Society Against Abortion and the New York State Right to
A Catholic prep school graduate, Lucy Burns (1879-1966) gave up language studies in Europe to join Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters in their fight for women’s suffrage. At a protest, Burns befriended fellow American Alice Paul; in 1912, they returned to the U.S. to lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association and other groups. When