Born: Nov 12, 1815, Johnstown, New York, U.S.Died: Oct 26, 1902, New YorkElizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social reformer, who, along with Susan B. Anthony, led the struggle for woman suffrage. Elizabeth Cady was born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, the fourth of six children. Although she never went to college, […]
Born: March 10, 1847, Liverpool, EnglandDied: July 13, 1934, Christchurch, New Zealand Sheppard was an English-born activist, who was a leader in the woman suffrage movement in New Zealand. She was instrumental in making New Zealand the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote (1893).Raised and educated in Scotland, she
Born: Sept 14, 1879, Corning, New York, U.S.Died: Sept 6, 1966, Tucson, Arizona Margaret Sanger was an American leader of the birth-control movement.Sanger was born in Corning, New York, on September 14, 1879, and trained as a nurse at the White Plains (New York) Hospital. Her work among the poor in New York City convinced
Born: c. 182 Died: March 7, 203, feast day March 7, Carthage [now a residential suburb of Tunis, Tunisia] Carthage in the 2nd century AD had a vibrant Christian community that included the Church Father Tertullian. Among those drawn to the growing church was a young mother, Perpetua, the daughter of a prosperous provincial family.
Born: February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.Died: October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan Rosa Louise Parks was an African American civil rights activist. In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her action led to the Montgomery bus strike, which was the first large-scale, organized protest against
Born: July 14, 1858, ManchesterDied: June 14, 1928, London Emmeline Pankhurst was a British suffrage leader, who led the movement to win the vote for women in Britain. Born Emmeline Goulden in Manchester, she studied (1873-77) at the École Normale in Paris. In 1879, she married Richard Marsden Pankhurst, a barrister, who worked with her
Born: Sept 22, 1880, Manchester, EnglandDied: Feb 13, 1958, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Christabel Pankhurst was a British suffrage leader, born in Manchester, England, eldest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and joint founder with her mother of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Christabel Pankhurst became secretary of the union in 1906 and was one
Born: 1500, Kudaki, IndiaDied: 1550, Dwarka, Gujarat Mira Bai or Meera Bai was a princess of Rajasthan, an area in northwest India, celebrated for her lyrical poetry and compositions of bhajans (songs of worship) devoted to the Hindu god Krishna. She formed part of the bhakti movement, which advocated complete devotion as the path to
Born: Oct 9, 1890, near Ingersoll, Ontario, CanadaDied: Sept 27, 1944, Oakland, California, U.S. Aimee Semple McPherson was a controversial Canadian-born American evangelist and early radio preacher, who founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Originally named Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy, she was born near Ingersoll, Ontario. Daughter of a Methodist farmer and a Salvation
Flourished 1st century AD, Palestine; feast day July 22 Saint Mary Magdalene in the New Testament was a saintly woman so named from Magdala, a town near Tiberias (now in Israel). Jesus healed her of evil spirits and, following her vigil at the foot of the cross, he appeared to her after his resurrection. Mary
Flourished beginning of the Christian Era Mary (Virgin Mary), also the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, has been venerated by the Christians since apostolic times. The Gospels give only a fragmentary account of Mary, mentioning her chiefly in connection with the beginning and the end of Jesus’ life. Matthew speaks of Mary as
Born: Oct 7, 1946, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. Mackinnon is an American feminist and professor of law, a controversial but influential legal theorist whose work primarily took aim at sexual harassment and pornography.Mackinnon, like her mother and grandmother before her, attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduating with a B.A. in government in 1969. In addition,
Born: March 5, 1871, Zamosc, Poland, Russian Empire[now in Poland]Died: Jan 15, 1919, Berlin, Germany Rosa Luxemburg was a German socialist leader and revolutionary, prominent in the international socialist movements in the early years of the 20th century.She was born on March 5, 1871, in Zamoßç, Poland (then a part of Russia), and was educated
Born: Feb 29, 1736, Manchester, EnglandDied: Sept 8, 1784, Watervliet, New York, U.S. Ann Lee was an English mystic, who brought the Shaker sect to America. Born in Manchester and uneducated, she worked in a cotton factory and as a cook. In 1758, she joined the Shaking Quakers, an extreme offshoot of the English Quakers.
Born: Feb 14, 1838, York, Maine, U.S.Died: Oct 12, 1914, Framingham, Massachusetts Knight was a prolific American inventor of machines and mechanisms for a variety of industrial and everyday purposes.Knight demonstrated a knack for tools and invention from an early age, and she was said to have contrived a safety device for controlling shuttles in