Alice Paul (1885-1977) was inspired by the fiery Pankhurst sisters to join the militant Women’s Social and Political Union. She first became known as an agitator in England, where she was repeatedly jailed, only to be released after hunger-striking. Paul later partnered with Lucy Burns to form the National Women’s Party; members marched on Washington

One of the most prolific and popular writers of the 20th century, Pearl S. Buck (Sai Zhenzhu) (1892- 1973) was the first woman awarded both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes in literature, and the first of only two American women to win the Nobel. The daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, Buck was born in West Virginia

Dr. Anna Densmore (French) (fl. 1860s) was a suffragist hospital reformer who persuaded the New York Board of Education to provide spaces for teaching young women about health and hygiene. Densmore also helped found Sorosis, a “sisterhoood” of professional women including physicians, professors, authors, artists, and historians. Late in 1868, Sorosis observed that unwed women