Harlem Renaissance writer Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) was the biracial daughter of Archibald Grimké, himself the son of a white man and a slave. Archibald named Angelina in honor of his aunt, abolitionist and suffragist Angelina Emily Grimké; she had housed and supported him in becoming the second African American ever to graduate from Harvard […]
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Eliza Bisbee Duffey (d. 1898) was an outspoken advice columnist who gained national acclaim with No Sex in Education, her biting response to Harvard professor Edward H. Clarke’s Sex in Education (1873). According to Dr. Clarke, females were anatomically unsuited for the rigors of academia; he claimed learned women would face dire consequences, like hysteria
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Mattie H. Brinkerhoff (fl. 1860s) was a uniquely persuasive lecturer who promoted women’s education and suffrage, shared parental responsibility, and rights to pre-and post-natal care. In 1867, Brinkerhoff toured Kansas with friends Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Universalist minister Olympia Brown. A year later, Brinkerhoff would win scores of admirers touring Illinois and
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Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) and Tennessee Claflin were flamboyant sisters who from poverty to become Wall Street’s first female stockbrokers and major political provocateurs. In 1871, Woodhull argued before Congress that voting rights recently extended to Black men must also apply to women. In 1872, Woodhull became the first woman ever to run for president. Unfortunately,
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