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Reform & Rights

Abolitionists, suffragists, organizers and advocates who changed what Americans were entitled to.

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Role: Any Activist 70 Author 21 Tribal Leader 18 Abolitionist 12 Conservationist 12 Military Commander 10 Religious Leader 10 Biologist 7 Journalist 7 Suffragist 7 Educator 6 Legislator 5 Catalyst 4 Labor Organizer 4 Lawyer 4 Public Health Leader 4
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Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906Civil Rights & Social ReformSuffragist and civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902Civil Rights & Social ReformPrincipal theorist and organizer of the nineteenth-century women’s rights and suffrage movements.Sojourner Truth 1797–1883Civil Rights & Social ReformAbolitionist and women's rights activist whose Ain't I a Woman? speech became a rallying cry for equality.Ida B. Wells 1862–1931Civil Rights & Social ReformJournalist and anti-lynching crusader whose investigative reporting exposed racial terror in the South.Alice Paul 1885–1977Civil Rights & Social ReformStrategist of the final campaign for women's suffrage and author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.Lucretia Mott 1793–1880Civil Rights & Social ReformAbolitionist and women’s-rights organizer who helped convene the Seneca Falls Convention.Carrie Chapman Catt 1859–1947Civil Rights & Social ReformSuffrage leader whose national organizing was instrumental in securing ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.