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Hace 2 días · The Robbins Hunter Museum is accepting nominations for this year’s Victoria Woodhull Woman of Achievement Award. This award recognizes a Licking County woman who embodies the qualities of ...
Hace 4 días · Men aren’t the only ones who have made names for themselves as investors. One of the earliest American women to blaze a trail in finance was suffragette Victoria Woodhull. In 1870, she and her ...
Hace 1 día · Martin Luther King Jr. Mahatma Gandhi Olympe de Gouges Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Victoria Woodhull W.E.B. Du Bois Alice Paul B. R. Ambedkar Muhammad Ali Jinnah Walter P. Reuther Dorothy Height Nelson Mandela Betty Friedan Frank Kameny Elie Wiesel Desmond Tutu James Bevel George Mason Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the ...
Hace 4 días · Victoria Woodhull (pictured here in 1874) was remarkable in many ways. Not only was she the first woman to run for president and one of the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street (along with...
Hace 4 días · Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – women's rights activist, first woman to speak before a committee of Congress, first female candidate for President of the United States, one of the first women to start a weekly newspaper (Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly,) activist for labor reforms, advocate of free love
Hace 3 días · Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its ...
Hace 3 días · Comparing real-life to cinema film locations in the AMC show TURN: Washington's Spies that tells the story of the spy ring in the Revolutionary War in Setauket.
