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Maria W. Stewart was the first American woman to publicly speak on women's rights. -
Ida B. Wells had refused to march in the back of the crowd in the Women's Suffrage movement parade in 1913. She felt extreme discrimination. She said this quote... "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." -
Pauli Murray and other black women helped to put their support into anti-discrimination efforts and labor. -
Claudette Colvin was refusing to give her seat up on the Montgomery bus. This event happened almost 9 months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. -
Dolores Huerta co-founded United Farm Workers. She had a voice for labor rights, latino civil rights an d gender equality. She worked along side César Chávez. -
Many black women helped design voter registration and non-violent protesting. Some of these women include Diane Nash and Ella Baker. -
This movement ranged from abortion, to parenting and systemic oppression. A black feminist that was the leader of this movement was Loretta Ross -
Anita Hill testified on a sexual harassment lead by SCOTUS nominee Clarence Thomas. All these conversations allowed gender, power and race to be brought into the topic in a wide range. -
This was the recentering for the fight of racial justice around women, men and queer leadership. The founders of this movement were Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. -
Ketanji Brown was the first Black woman on the U.S Supreme Court, this allowed more broad debates on equity through the law.