WOMEN IN HISTORY

WOMEN IN HISTORY

1. DOROTHEA DIX

   • 1802-1906
     • Reform prisons/asylums - bed head Union nurse.

2. CLAIRA BARTON

   • 1821-1912
     • Front line war nurse

3. STANTON & ANTHONY

   • 1815-1902
   • 1820-1906
   • Formed nat woman's loyal league - slavery ban - petition 400k sigs for 13th amend.

4. MOTHER BICKERDYKE

   • 1817-1901
   • Front line war nurse

5. SOJOURNER TRUTH

   • 1797-1883
   • Slave - abolitionist - feminist - stood up to men publicly

6. LUCY STONE

   • 1818-1893
   • Mrs. Stone - wife is independent radical being-helped women control prop/$$/kids

7. HARRIET TUBMAN

   • 1822-1913
   • Rescued 756 slaves - gov pension $20/mon

8. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

   • 1821-1910
     • App 29 med schools, Dr hygiene/sanitation

9. ANNA DICKENSON

   • 1842-1932
   • Fame repub speaker - abolitiion

10. AMELIA BLOOMER

    • 1818-1894
    • Pub 1st women's newspaper - dress reform - "bloomers"

11. MARIA MITCHELL

    • 1818-1889
    • Astronomer - disc comet @28 - 1st woman prof of Astro Vassar - started women's organizations

12. By 1860 some progress in women's rights - Civil War - women jobs - govt/teach/farms/no men left - war relief (black and white) - nurses

13. Southern women suffered more from Civil War than northern women - southern women self sufficient but no feminism there

14. Feminists believed suffrage would follow abolition - but not till 1920