1868- Susan B. Anthony

Co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Championed equal rights for women. In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote. Popularly known as the Anthony Amendment, it became the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. [1]

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1868- Susan B. Anthony
PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS
1800s - Agricultural Age
1920- Carrie Chapman Catt
1778- Molly Pitcher
1781- Mum Bett
1793 - Catharine Greene
1804 to 1806- Sacagawea
1811- Sophie Germain
1814- Dolley Madison
1830s- Sarah & Angelina Grimke (Sisters)
1842- Ada Lovelace
1849 - Harriet Tubman
1849- Elizabeth Blackwell
1853- Sojourner Truth
1880s- Clara Barton
1880s- Nellie Bly
1890s - Marie Curie
1893- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1900s- Isadora Duncan
1904 - Ida Tarbell
1905- Bertha von Suttner
1905- Nettie Stevens
1907- Julia Morgan
1915- Hellen Keller
1916- Margaret Sanger
1919- Alice Hamilton, M.D.
1920- Carrie Chapman Catt
1920- Emmy Noether
1920's- Lillian Moller Gilbreth
1926 - Mary Parker Follett
1926- Grete Hermann
1928- Mother Teresa
1930s- Billie Holiday
1930s Eleanor Roosevelt
1931- Jane Addams Hull
1935- Irene Joliot-Curie
1936 - Inge Lehmann
1937- Amelia Earhart
1939- Lise Meitner
1942- Hedy Lamarr
1942- Margaret Mead
1943- Gertrude Blanch
1943- Rosa Parks
1944- Bletchley Park Women's Team
1946 - ENIAC Programmers
1947 - Indra Devi
1947 - Mária Telkes
1947- Gerty Cori
1950s- Barbara McClintock
1950s- Chien-Shiung Wu
1950s- Esther Lederberg
1950s- Jane Goodall
1952- Grace Murray Hopper
1952- Mary G. Ross
1953- Rosalind Franklin
1955- Ann Landers & Abigail Van Buren
1955- Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon
1957- Gertrude Belle Elion
1960s- Grace Slick
1960s- Joni Mitchell
1960s- Mildred Dresselhaus
1960s- Ursula Franklin
1962- Malvina Reynolds
1962- Rachel Carson
1962- Virginia Satir
1963- Betty Friedan
1963- Maria Goeppert Mayer
1964 - Stephanie Kwolek
1964- Dorothy “Crowfoot” Hodgkin
1965- Lilli Vincenz
1966 - Mary Douglas
1967- Erna Schneider Hoover
1967- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
1969- Katherine Johnson
1970s- Anna Halprin
1971 - Margaret Hamilton
1972- Barbara Gittings
1972- Gloria Steinem
1972- Yvonne Brill
1973- Adele Goldberg
1973- Billie Jean King
1973- Judith Estrin
1974 - Betty Ford
1979 - Lenore Walker
1980s - Joanna Macy
1980s- Angeles Arrien
1980s- Gopika Kannan
1981- Dianne Pennica
1982- Nancy Margulies
1983- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
1984- Virginia Uribe
1985- Christa McAuliffe
1986- Oprah Winfrey
1986- Susan Solomon
1987- Lucy Suchman
1990s- Rita Colwell
1991- Joy Mountford
1994- Susan McGee Bailey
1996- Eve Ensler
2000 - Jennifer Lopez
2001- Lene Hau
2001- Sally Ride
2005 - Arianna Huffington
2006- Amy Jussel
2007- Claudia Welss
2007- Taylor Swift
2009- Margarita Quihuis
2010 - Beyoncé
2011- Jane McGonigal
2013 Sheryl Sandberg
2014- Malala Yousafzai
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