Abolitionist Frances Wright (Scottish-American 1795-1892): Bold and Brazen
Frances Wright was one of the earliest feminist speakers to travel around the United States,...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Activists
Angelina Grimké: Digging up the Weed of Racism by the Roots Out of Each of Our Hearts (American Woman Writer and Activist 1805-1879)
On February 21, 1838 when woman activist Angelina Grimké gave a speech before the state house in...
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Sofie Scholl: “Wake up! Resist! Sabotage!” Young Woman Activist, German (1921-1943)
“Isn’t it mysterious—and frightening, too, when one doesn’t know the reason—that everything should...
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Esclarmonde of Foix the Great: Pope of the Heretics, French (1151– 1215) Original painting and text by Karin Peschau
Countess Zebella Trencavel of Carcassone and her husband Roger Bernard, the count of Foix, gave...
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Sojourner Truth: A Wandering Woman Orator, American (c. 1797-1883) Original painting and text by Karin Peschau
Her face speaks to us about the chains of slavery, about the iron chains of the slaves in America,...
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