Portrait of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune , civil rights activist and president and founder of Bethune Cookman College, ca.1920s.
American civil rights activist Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher signing the Register of Attorneys, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 1, 1952.
Group of League of Women Voters members present a sign with the planks the organization presented to the Democratic Platform Committee in 1920. USA.
Portrait of American Civil Rights activist Ella Baker , the NAACP Hatfield representative, as she sits behind a desk covered with paperwork,...
Willa Beatrice Brown, a 31-year-old African American, served her country by training pilots for the US Army Air Forces during World War 2, 1941. She...
American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery,...
Sojourner Truth poses for a portrait while knitting at a small table. Sojourner Truth, whose legal name was Isabella Van Wagener, was born into...
Washington, D.C.: Rachel Carson stirred up a roaring national controversy with her last book, "Silent Spring." Now living quietly in a suburban...
Surrounded by minority women at the Houston Civic Center, Coretta Scott King talks of the resolution on minority women's rights that won the support...
Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is shown as she addresses delegates to the 1956 Democratic National Convention....
The above photo shows left to right: Stella Wolfe Murray, the first woman admitted to the press galleries of the British Parliament; Maud Younger,...
Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Louis Gibbs and homeowners celebrate a victory after learning that the Federal Government allowed the canal residents to stay at...
Washington, DC- Nine robed women, all executive board officers of the National Organization for Women conducted a "mock" session of the United States...
Atlantic City, NJ- Convention Hall. Mrs. Fannie Hamer, member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, was one of the exciting highlights of the...
Karen DeCrow, the eastern regional director of the National Organization for Women is shown with women's liberation posters.
Radical political activist Angela Davis speaks at a street rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, 4th July 1974.
Madame Sarojini Naidu, the outstanding feminist activist in India, and co-leader with Gandhi in the Indian Nationalist Movement, is in San Francisco,...
Oakland, Ca- Recently acquitted of the murder of her white jailer, Joan Little appears at news conference sponsored by the Black Panthers. Elaine...
New York, NY- Some of the women delegates who attended the meeting held at Beethoven Hall, New York City in aid of the striking car men. Standing,...
Ten year old Samantha Smith sent a letter earlier this year to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov pleading for an end to the arms race. Monday morning, she...
Dr. Marie Stopes, the author of books on birth control, sued Dr. Halliday Sutherland for libel. Judgement was entered for the defendants on the...
Ada Deer, Chairperson for the Menominee Restoration Committee, is shown while reading a statement appealing for unity among Menominees at a news...
Dorothy Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women is shown in this closeup photograph.
Washington, D.C.: Alice Paul, vice president of the National Women's party broadcasts plans for the dedication of the New National Headquarters at...
Mrs. Daisy Bates, State President of the Arkansas NAACP sits in the circuit court with one of her lawyers, Robert L. Carter of New York as her appeal...
The Friends of Ethiopia, a London organization composed largely of Negroes, recently held a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, to protest against...
Members of the National Council of Negro Women meeting at the organisation's headquarters, 1318 Vermont Avenue in Washington, D.C., circa 1950. Among...
Group of Women's Suffrage activists march in a parade carrying a banner reading 'I Wish Ma Could Vote' circa 1913.
African American Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, sitting on porch in white dress, pointing finger. Shot from waist up in Ruleville, Mississippi 1969....
Author and cultural critic bell hooks poses for a portrait on December 16, 1996 in New York City, New York.
Trinidad-born journalist and activist Claudia Jones at the offices of The West Indian Gazette at 250 Brixton Road, Brixton, south London, 1962. Jones...
Model Waris Dirie presents her new book 'Schwarze Frau, Weisses Land' at Hotel Adlon on May 18, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads 'Viva La Causa', ca.1970s.
Oxfordshire, ENGLAND Halima Aden attends the gala dinner during #BoFVOICES on December 1, 2017 in Oxfordshire, England.
March organizer Brenda Gutierrez, actress Frances Fisher and activist and #MeToo campaign founder Tarana Burke participate in the Take Back The...
Older women gather at a demonstration in support of passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, Pittsburgh PA, 1976. Three foreground women's signs read...
American-born Canadian social and urban activist & author Jane Jacobs smiles with her husband, architect Robert Hyde Jacobs , and their daughter,...
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, an author and champion of the preservation of the Florida Everglades, examines a grass stalk. Everglades, Florida.
French author Simon de Beauvoir in her Parisian apartment. Simone de Beauvoir is renowned for her book "The Second Sex."
American civil rights campaigner, and widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King stands behind a podium covered in microphones at...
American politician US Representative Shirley Chisholm speaks at an unspecified US military base during a tour exploring racism in the armed forces,...
Kenyan environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to...
Eleanor Rathbone , a former campaigner for women's suffrage, celebrates the Silver Jubilee of the Women's Vote in London, 20th February 1943. Banners...
