First Lady, Secretary of State, first female presidential candidate for a major party

Muckraker and anti-lynching campaigner during the Progressive Era

Civil rights activist, co-founder of the United Farm Workers

Wrote The Feminine Mystique, credited with sparking the women's rights/feminist movement of the 1970s

The first politically involved First Lady, defined the role of the modern First Lady. Social activist

First female Supreme Court Justice (appointed by Reagan)

Progressive Era reformer and activist, founder of the Hull House, a settlement house for immigrants

Her arrest helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott of the Civil Rights movement

Founder of a women's suffrage organization and women's rights activist during the Progressive Era