Emma Hart Willard – Women’s Education Trailblazer
Emma Hart Willard founded the first higher education school for women in the US in Troy, NY in 1821 to teach girls “male” subjects such as science and math.
Women’s Rights
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch – Mobilizing Woman-Power
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch played a crucial role in expanding the women’s rights movement to working women and achieving full voting rights for women.
Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Smith – A quiet Reformer with big Impact
Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Smith was a NY abolitionist, who with her husband, Gerrit Smith, helped hundreds of slaves by buying them free or assisting fugitives.
The Revolution – Women, their Rights and Nothing Less
The Revolution was a radical women’s rights newspaper, owned by Susan B. Anthony, edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, published in NYC.