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Abigail Adams
Counseled John Adams and encouraged US founding fathers to not leave women out of the freedoms and privileges of the new republic
Agnes Wells
Taught mathematics and astronomy at the university level in the 1910s
Aleda Lutz
First American woman to be killed in action during WWII
Alice Freeman Palmer
President of Wellesley College in the late 19th c. and ardent supporter of women's education
Alice Paul
Suffragist who started the National Woman's Party and was willing to lose her freedom for the cause
Anna "Annie" Clemenc
Michigan labor activist who rallied workers and fought against capitalists so that laborers could sit at the bargaining table
Anna Margaretha Auer Picklemann List
First midwife in Frankenmuth, Michigan
Anne Davidow
Michigan attorney who worked for labor and women's rights
Anne Hutchinson
In colonial US, she dared to believe that women could take an active role in religion
Annie Smith Peck
Annie Smith Peck was an adventurer, teacher, author, and mountain climber who achieved new heights for women, not just by scaling summits but through her travel writing, work in the Classics, and exploration.