Belva Lockwood, born in 1830, may be one of the most amazing suffragists you have never heard of, but what a remarkable woman she was! As a teacher in New York, Lockwood championed coeducation and expanded curriculum — including science and rhetoric — for girls. Lockwood moved to Washington D.C. and earned a law degree […]
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Francesca DiGiovanni is the first woman — and first layperson of either sex — to hold a managerial position in the Secretariat of State of the Holy See. Last Thursday, the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference On Women in Beijing, DiGiovanni declared at the United Nations: A third crucial area involves health care. Hundreds of millions
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary was an American-Canadian suffragist, abolitionist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. The oldest of 13 children, she was born in 1823 to free black parents whose Wilmington, Delaware home often served as a refuge for fugitive slaves. Shadd Cary was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman
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FFL President Serrin M. Foster celebrates Respect Life Month by revealing the Remarkable Pro-Life Women® who chose medicine during the suffrage era, including the great women of color, in her latest op-ed in the Washington Examiner. “The 2020 Centennial Celebration of the 19th Amendment is a great opportunity to celebrate the trailblazing suffragists who became our first female
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