Women Who Dared

Rosa Parks

Activist who fought to make society safer for women and to end racial segregation

Tags: civil rights, Montgomery bus boycott, sexual assault, women's rights

Co-creator of the National Organization for Women in the US and author of noted works highlighting women's subordinate status in the US

Tags: feminism, National Organization of Women, women's rights

Former Catholic nun turned Protestant reformer

Tags: katarina von bora, katharina von bora, katherine luther, katherine von bora, Martin Luther, Protestant Revolution, religion

Painting title: Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting

Tags: art, female artist, italian painter

Female pharaoh who led Egypt into a time of peace and economic prosperity

Tags: Egypt, female pharaoh

Counseled John Adams and encouraged US founding fathers to not leave women out of the freedoms and privileges of the new republic

Tags: American Revolution, early Republic, remember the ladies

Michigan labor activist who rallied workers and fought against capitalists so that laborers could sit at the bargaining table

Tags: labor activism, Michigan, socialism

Michigan attorney who worked for labor and women's rights

Tags: law, michigan barmaids, women's rights

In colonial US, she dared to believe that women could take an active role in religion

Tags: colonial Massachusetts, Puritan society, religion

Humanitarian who has spent her adult life working for social justice

Tags: anti-nuclear weapons, domestic violence, rape, social justice